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US President Joe BidenWASHINGTON Feb 15The United States believes that the possibility of Russia's «attack» on Ukraine remains, said US President Joe Biden in connection with the situation in Ukraine. At the same time, the American side does not provide any evidence for its statements. «We are ready to respond decisively if Russia attacks Ukraine, and it still remains very likely,» Biden said in a video message broadcast live by local TV channels. He stressed that the United States remains committed to a diplomatic solution to the situation. Earlier, Politico, citing informed sources, wrote that US President Joe Biden at a video conference with the leaders of Western countries, the European Union and NATO, he named February 16 as the date for Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on these reports, said that it is difficult to take such publications seriously, and Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes jokingly asks to know if the exact time of the start of the war is published anywhere.The US named the culprit of the Ukrainian crisis The Sun tabloid claimed that Russia was allegedly preparing to launch a massive strike with the participation of 200 thousand military personnel, using tanks, aircraft, missiles and ships. Moscow categorically denies the plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine and all such statements are being 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. Allegations that Russia is allegedly preparing provocations in Ukraine continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. On Monday, the Russian President held a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At a meeting with Putin, the head of the RF Ministry of Defense reported that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» The Southern and Western military districts of the Russian Federation have begun returning troops to their places of deployment, Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Tuesday. criticized the CBS story about the «invasion of Russia»