White House Press Secretary Jen PsakiaWASHINGTON Feb 2White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Russia was responsible for de-escalating the Ukraine crisis, which she likened to a fox screaming from the roof of a chicken coop about fear of chickens. Psaki repeated an allegory previously used by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken when answering a question about the presence in Washington of a «sympathetic» attitude towards Russia's central security demand — guarantees of NATO non-expansion to the east. «fear is not presented as a declaration of fact. And when you see President (of Russia Vladimir) Putin shouting about fear of Ukraine and Ukrainians, this should not be interpreted as a declaration of fact. We know who the fox is in this case,» she said at a briefing. Psaki rejected attempts to equate the actions of Russia and the United States with their NATO allies in the situation around Ukraine. «When we talk about mutual de-escalation, Russia has 100,000 military on the border. She is the aggressor. We are working with NATO countries to ensure that they feel safe at this moment. NATO is a defensive alliance. It's not the same thing,» she said, and urged to be careful with such comparisons. Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly rejected the accusations of the West and Ukraine is in escalation, declaring that it does not threaten anyone and is not going to attack anyone, and that it is moving troops within its territory and at its own discretion, this does not threaten anyone and should not worry anyone. «does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not exclude that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering up 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 the hysteria of the US and NATO over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. Lutsky: US reduces negotiations to the myth of Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine
