“This is a very dangerous situation.

We are at a stage when Russia can launch an attack on Ukraine at any moment,” she said.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, urged him not to replicate speculation about the allegedly impending "Russian aggression", but to force the Ukrainian authorities to implement the Minsk agreements in full.

The Russian embassy in Washington earlier called reports that Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine could allegedly begin between mid-January and mid-February, and Moscow could allegedly "fake a pretext for an attack" as a fabrication and information pressure.