OREANDA-NEWS. Attempts by the American media to present Russia in a negative light because of the situation in Ukraine have become too obvious even for the US citizens themselves. This was stated by journalist David Bromwich in an article for The Nation magazine.

According to him, there are many materials on this topic, but they were published despite the large number of factual errors. Bromwich clarified that The New York Times deliberately misled readers in its January articles.

So, the journalist drew attention to the alleged security crisis, which the publication writes about. According to the authors of the material, Russia allegedly provoked this crisis by surrounding Ukraine from three sides. At the same time, Bromwich stressed that there are no statements that NATO has “pinned Russia against the wall”, there are only supposedly Russia's fault.

At the same time, according to him, in harsh statements and forecasts, The New York Times journalists rarely refer to authoritative sources. The journalist assured that allusions to the alleged transfer of nuclear weapons to places that are not far from the coast of the United States are a provocative speculation masquerading as fact.

In addition, Bromwich refuted the thesis popular in Western media about Russia's alleged desire to restore the zone of influence of the Soviet Union.

“Here the authors are frankly lying. The Soviet sphere included Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania (all of which are members of NATO today). Russia does not require any of them to break with the West and plant a Soviet-style puppet government. How did this phrase pass the fact-checking?” the journalist asked.

In the United States and a number of European countries, they have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in Russia's "aggressive actions" against Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly rejected such accusations, emphasizing that it does not threaten anyone, and such statements are used as an excuse to place as much NATO military equipment as possible near the borders of the Russian Federation. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted, Russia is not going to start a war with Ukraine, and Western countries and the United States are “hysterically” developing the topic of the Russian threat instead of forcing Ukraine to comply with the Minsk agreements.