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White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on Friday (March 21) the United States is skeptical of Russian assurances that troop movements on the Ukraine border are no more than military exercises.
"We have indeed been taking note of developments along Ukraine's border, including the Russian border," Rice told reporters.
"The Russians have stated that they are intending military exercises," she added. "Obviously, given their past practice and the gap between what they have said and what they have done, we are watching it with skepticism."
Rice also said the Obama administration was undertaking an assessment of its relationship with Russia, saying that diplomatic relations had move a long way from the early month of the Obama presidency when Washington sought a "reset" of its occasionally strained engagement with Moscow.
"That was predicated on an expectation that Russia would play by the rules of t
