MOSCOW, December 18 — RIA Novosti. Washington is not interested in a further escalation of relations with Moscow and a «hard» confrontation with Russia, RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti, commenting on the NYT publication that American officials tried to prevent Kiev from planning and carrying out an attack on the head of the RF Armed Forces General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
Earlier, the New York Times claimed that American officials tried to prevent Kiev from planning and carrying out an attack on Gerasimov. According to the report, after internal discussions, Washington asked Ukraine call off the attack, but Kyiv said it had already begun. The message does not specify the source of this information, nor does it specify the period in which the described events took place.
