White House press secretary Jen Psaki remained adamant Wednesday that Russia might soon launch an invasion of Ukraine, despite statements from Russian President Vladimir Putin and other top officials that the country is working to deescalate the situation.
Psaki was asked by a reporter during the White House press briefing about Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement from earlier in the day that “he has seen evidence that Vladimir Putin is actually moving critical military assets toward the border with Ukraine and not away from the border, as Putin has claimed.”
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“Well, I think as Secretary Blinken also said, the Russian troops remain massed in a very threatening way at the border,” Psaki responded. “He was responding, I believe, to a question — a good question — about whether they were delivering on what they had promised yesterday.”
“The answer was no,” she continued. “There’s, you know, what Russia says, and there’s what Russia does, and we’re watching very closely what steps they’re taking, but they remain amassed in a threatening way at the border.”
Later in the briefing, Psaki added that the White House is considering placing “a range of sanctions” on members of Putin’s inner circle as a retaliatory measure for an incursion.
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You can watch Wednesday’s entire briefing below.
