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President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing them of creating a “panic” and insisting that he knows the situation in his own country.

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“Do we have tanks on the streets?” Zelensky asked reporters during a news conference. “No. When you read media, you get the image that we have troops in the city, people fleeing … That’s not the case.”

• Though Zelensky declined to rule out the possibility of conflict, he denied the repeated suggestion by Washington that a Russian attack may be “imminent.”

“I’m the president of Ukraine and I’m based here and I think I know the details better here,” he said at one point. 

• The news conference came one day after Zelensky spoke on the phone with President Biden. Following the call, CNN cited an unnamed Ukrainian official in reporting that Biden had told Zelensky that a Russian invasion of Kiev was almost certain.

• The White House hastily denied the report, calling it “completely false.” 

• “President Biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February,” National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne tweeted, later adding that “reports of anything more or different than that are completely false.”

SOURCE: NYPOST