Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a telephone conversation WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 US President Joe Biden in During a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he was unable to give clear answers to requests for additional assistance to Ukraine and a trip to Kiev, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with it. Biden and Zelensky had a telephone conversation on Sunday that lasted just under an hour. According to a White House statement, the leaders agreed to continue diplomatic efforts to resolve the current crisis over Ukraine. In addition, during the conversation, the US leader promised the President of Ukraine to give a «quick and decisive» response to any possible aggression against his country. Zelensky due to the invitation of Biden to KievAccording to another source, the Biden administration, meanwhile, is «detailedly» studying the possibility of providing additional economic assistance to Ukraine.According to the agency, the American president is unlikely to visit Kiev amid a call for Americans to leave the country.The West accuses the Russian Federation of alleged plans on the escalation of the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly states that no one is threatened with anything, and all such statements are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes.
