Russia says West spread lies about plan to invade Ukraine.

 Faced with reports of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak by phone this Saturday.

Western countries, with the help of the media, are spreading false information by suggesting that Moscow may be planning to invade Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

The US government said on Friday that Russia had massed enough troops near Ukraine to launch a major invasion, likely to start with an air assault.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will talk on Saturday about Ukraine, a high-ranking official of the US Administration confirmed to the Efe agency on Friday.

That source explained that Moscow had proposed a telephone conversation for Monday, but Washington preferred to advance it to Saturday, something that the Kremlin accepted.

Biden will receive the call on Saturday morning (Eastern US time) at the presidential residence at Camp David, in the state of Maryland and where he went on Friday afternoon.

This will be the first direct conversation between the two leaders since Dec. 30, when Biden and Putin outlined their differences on Ukraine in a phone call.

This time, the conversation will take place after the US asked its citizens to leave Ukrainian territory in the next 24 to 48 hours due to the "clear possibility" that Russia will attack Ukraine during the Winter Olympics, which are held until next February 20 in Beijing.

Specifically, the White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, said this Friday at a press conference that there is an "imminent" risk of a possible Russian invasion and warned that this offensive could begin with "aerial bombings and attacks by missiles”.

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This same Friday, on instructions from Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin gave the order to deploy 3,000 additional soldiers in Poland, so that there are already 6,000 US soldiers on the eastern flank of NATO in Europe.

Tension has spiked in the last month over the West's claim that Russia has mobilized more than 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border, prompting the US and Russian governments to engage in a propaganda battle.

Moscow has repeated that it does not want a war with Kiev and that it does not threaten Ukraine, while Washington warns that the Russians could attack the neighboring country "at any moment".

Biden talks to allies on Ukraine

President Joe Biden spoke this Friday with leaders of countries allied with the United States in which concerns about the accumulation of Russian military forces around Ukraine were raised and they expressed their desire to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis, the White House reported.

The leaders also agreed to make coordinated efforts to deter Russian aggression against Ukraine, including being prepared to impose "enormous consequences and serious economic costs" on Russia if it opts for a military escalation, the White House said after the video conference.

They also spoke of their willingness to continue "strengthening the defensive posture on NATO's eastern flank" in the event of a further escalation by Russia, the White House added.

The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau; the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; the President of the European Council, Charles Michel; French President Emmanuel Macron; the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, among others.