Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the US claims that Russia is allegedly preparing video provocations to launch an "attack" on Ukraine nonsense, RIA Novosti reported.

"It is not for me to guess why our Western colleagues can be surprised in modern conditions. They are surprised with and without reason, mostly without reason, or at reasons that they themselves invent. I read ... some statements by the state department that Russia is preparing fake videos showing an alleged attack by Ukrainian troops on Donbass. Well, I do not know, the delusional nature of this kind of fabrication, and there are more and more of them every day, is obvious to any more or less experienced political scientist," Lavrov said.

US authorities claim that Russian special services are allegedly planning to make a video that would depict a staged attack by Ukrainian troops on Russian territory or their own Russian-speaking fellow citizens - with footage of "killed," destroyed buildings, grieving people, Ukrainian weapons and Turkish-made drones. According to Washington, such a "fake" could be a pretext for Russia to launch military operations against a neighboring country. When asked by the media to provide evidence, State Department spokesman Ned Price urged them to trust the US government.