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The national flag of the Federal Republic of Germany over the Budestag building in BerlinBERLIN, Feb 18Dialogue with Russia remains the only way out of the current crisis around Ukraine, Wolfgang Buechner, deputy spokesman for the German government, said at a briefing in Berlin. «Due to the extremely tense situation, it is important to remain in dialogue with Russia, dialogue remains the only way out of this crisis,» said Buechner, adding that he would not «speculate» on data previously published in the German media that up to 1 million refugees could arrive in the EU in the event of a conflict on the territory of Ukraine. declare that they are not threatening anyone, 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 information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. 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, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At a meeting with Putin, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Tuesday that the Southern and Western military districts of the Russian Federation began returning troops to their places of deployment. The withdrawal of the military to the places of deployment after the exercises is a common practice, there is nothing new, the press secretary of President Peskov told reporters earlier when asked if the withdrawal of troops means a de-escalation of the situation around Ukraine. All residents of Kiev were going to be evacuated