'Don't look up': Why Ukraine is playing down Russia threat as U.S. sounds the alarm

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'Don't look up': Why Ukraine is playing down Russia threat as U.S. sounds the alarm
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Ukraine’s president has repeatedly called for calm in the face of the Russian buildup, telling a news conference that there's too much “panic.”

but ahead of Zelenskyy's news conference, Putin said Friday that it had not addressed Moscow’s main security demands.

The country’s leaders could be downplaying the possibility of invasion “to avoid panic among their own population,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the London-based think tank Chatham House. However, he added, “the enormous intelligence collection capabilities of the United States might well have led to a different picture from Kyiv’s intimate knowledge of the adversary.”

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