Blinken believes that Russia can "arrange a provocation" for "intervention in Ukraine"

He announced this during a speech at the State Department.

“No one should be surprised if Russia arranges a provocation or incident and then tries to use it to justify military intervention in the hope that by the time the world realizes that there was a catch, it will be too late,” - Blinken declared.

Earlier, the US Secretary of State in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba discussed "a possible response to the build-up of Russian forces" near the Ukrainian border.

At the same time, on December 30, NSDC Secretary Aleksey Danilov said that Ukraine today does not see the threat of aggression from Russia.

As Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, noted, the problem of Russia's “invasion” of Ukraine exists only in the minds of a number of politicians, and it must die there.