The U.S. and the UK are conducting war propaganda, which is prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.

"What we see now is war propaganda in its purest form," Zakharova said in a social media post on Monday. "Aggressive rhetoric covers the supply of weapons to Ukraine, the dispatch of military instructors there, the holding of NATO military exercises near the Russian borders and the creation of an offensive combined-arms infrastructure of Western states."

"And now they are brandishing it like a club, supporting controlled hysteria through the media holdings CNN, Bloomberg, British tabloids, influencing public opinion in their countries," she said.