US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Russia could attack Ukraine at any moment, including during the Olympic Games. He spoke about this at a press conference in Melbourne, the transcript of which is available on the website of the State Department.

“As we have said, we are in a position where an invasion could start at any moment. And to be clear, this applies to the Olympics as well,” Blinken said.

According to him, the United States continues to record troubling signs of escalation from Russia, including the arrival of new troops on the Ukrainian border.

Earlier it was reported that Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to attack Ukraine during the Winter Olympics, which will be held in February in Beijing. As the Bloomberg news agency learned, the Chinese authorities fear that the Russian “invasion” of Ukraine will overshadow an event beneficial to China on the international agenda. In addition, Beijing is worried that with the outbreak of hostilities, China may be drawn into a diplomatic conflict. Moscow, for its part, has repeatedly stated that it is not going to attack Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the Bloomberg news a fake from the American intelligence services, and the agency itself was called an "information dump."

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