White House calls CNN report on Russian invasion ‘completely false’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

The White Home has pushed again on a CNN report about Thursday’s telephone name between US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, calling it “fully false.” 

“President Biden mentioned that there’s a distinct chance that the Russians might invade Ukraine in February. He has beforehand mentioned this publicly and we’ve got been warning about this for months. Stories of something extra or totally different than which can be fully false,” Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the Nationwide Safety Council, tweeted on Thursday night.

She was responding to a tweet by CNN’s senior nationwide safety correspondent, Alexander Marquardt, who was quoting his colleague in Kiev, Matthew Probability.

“A Russian invasion is now nearly sure as soon as the bottom freezes, Biden mentioned to Zelensky, a senior Ukrainian official informed [Chance]. Kyiv might be ‘sacked,’ Russian forces might try and occupy it, ‘put together for influence’, Biden mentioned, in response to this official,” Marquardt tweeted.  

CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper had Probability cite “the Ukrainian official” reside on air.

“The capital, Kiev, this metropolis right here, might be ‘sacked.’ That’s the phrase he [Biden] apparently used, in response to this Ukrainian official. [It could be] sacked by Russian forces,” Probability informed Tapper.

Probability went on to cite what he referred to as a “fairly impactful line” from the Biden-Zelensky name as narrated to him by the nameless Ukrainian official. “President Biden [was] telling his Ukrainian counterpart that Ukraine ought to put together for influence. Fairly a stark warning there from the US chief.”

The phase, nonetheless, was subsequently faraway from The Lead’s Twitter account.

The quote was shortly picked up by different retailers, resembling The Unbiased, The Specific, and the Each day Mail. In the meantime, CNN anchor Jim Sciutto quoted Horne as saying that “nameless sources are ‘leaking’ falsehoods” concerning the name.

Zelensky’s spokesman, Sergey Nykyforov, likewise dismissed experiences citing the alleged “senior Ukrainian official” as “fully false.”

“Right data can solely be present in official releases from the Ukrainian and American sides,” he acknowledged.

Formally, the Biden-Zelensky name on Thursday afternoon went effectively, with the 2 presidents discussing the continued US army and monetary assist to Ukraine. Biden reiterated US assist for Ukraine and informed Zelensky the US and its allies had been able to “reply decisively if Russia additional invades Ukraine,” in response to the official White Home readout.

Biden additionally informed his Ukrainian colleague that the US embassy in Kiev “stays open and absolutely operational” despite the fact that some members of the family of diplomats and workers had been evacuated this week.

The 2 presidents famous the success of Wednesday’s talks in Paris, the place Russia and Ukraine agreed on the matter of sustaining the ceasefire within the disputed area of Donbass and scheduled one other assembly in Berlin in two weeks.