Washington and London have cooked up the threat of Russia ‘invading Ukraine’ for the sake of a "heroic fight" in order to carry out a provocation and then declare victory, which is a way to distract their public from their own domestic crises and restore the "undefeatable" image following the Afghan flop, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel on Monday.

The diplomat pointed out the repeated discussion on Europe’s fate in EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell’s blog posted on January 30 confirmed her earlier suspicions that the blog "leads a life of its own," while the European top diplomat "perhaps is not even aware of what sort of bizarre texts are posted on his behalf."