Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Feb 17 «media frenzy» about Ukraine, the embassy in Washington said. journalists and focus on the really important issues of the diplomatic settlement of the intra-Ukrainian conflict", the diplomatic mission said in a Facebook statement.
In this way, the embassy commented on a recent interview by US State Department representative Ned Price to CNN, during which he tried to convict Moscow of disseminating false information about Ukraine. Diplomats stated that «the flywheel of anti-Russian hysteria untwisted in the United States does not allow American colleagues to look at things objectively.» 
The State Department said they did not name the exact dates of the «invasion» of Ukraine «Self-hypnosis about the inevitability of a Russian attack continues stubbornly. It got to the point that on the eve of an interview with Ned Price, CNN, during a live report from Kiev, in fact, launched a countdown to an imaginary invasion, appointed by the TV channel on the morning of February 16,” the embassy noted. Over the past month, Western media have several times set the date and even the time of Russia’s “invasion” of Ukraine. The British newspaper The Sun, referring to the US intelligence services, stated that the attack of Russian troops would begin on February 16 at three in the morning. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki argued that the «invasion» could begin «between mid-January and mid-February.» The West accuses Russia of escalating the situation around Ukraine. The Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry deny all accusations, emphasizing that Russia is not involved in the intra-Ukrainian conflict and does not violate any agreements, unlike Kiev, which refuses to comply with the Minsk agreements.
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