Washington. February 6. INTERFAX - The United States and its allies are working on measures taking into account various scenarios of developments around Ukraine, since Russia's actions against Ukraine may take different forms, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.
"Part of the reason why we have been working so intensively in recent months is that preparations are underway not for one, but for all scenarios of emergency events," he said in an interview with NBC.
According to him, Russia's actions against Ukraine can take many forms, including the possibility of "annexation of the occupied territories in the east of Ukraine, known as Donbass", "hybrid actions", including cyber attacks and destabilization of the political situation, or a full-scale invasion.
At the same time, he stressed that the escalation of the situation around Ukraine could happen at any moment, and, according to Washington, the Russian Federation has concentrated military forces capable of "a significant military operation in Ukraine."
Sullivan also recalled the readiness of the United States to negotiate with the Russian Federation on the deployment of certain missile systems, transparency around military exercises, confidence-building measures and the prevention of accidental incidents.
