Moscow is considering different scenarios for further security actions, but there are fewer than the U.S. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, the UNN news agency quoted TASS as saying.

"Of course, in the context of the current situation, of course, Russia is thinking about how to ensure its own security... We know from Mrs. Nuland that the United States has 18 scenarios. We also have different scenarios. We think, there should be much fewer of them, because our question is very accurate... The question asked is very straightforward and very concrete," said the press secretary of the president of Russia.

According to Dmitry Peskov, there is no task in such questions to "make complicated something that, maybe, is not so complicated."

"We hope that, as our American interlocutors have already said, they will be able to formulate something in writing this week," he added.

It should be noted that earlier, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland in an interview in the British newspaper Financial Times said that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has prepared 18 different scenarios of action in case of Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the day before, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview that aired on CNN's Farid Zakaria program that Russian troops stationed along the perimeter of the border with Ukraine would not be withdrawn from the border.

Peskov said that the troops are on the territory of the Russian Federation and will remain in their places because of the "tense situation" that has arisen on the border and the "unfriendly atmosphere" created by NATO's actions.

At the same time, Peskov said that there are no Russian troops on Ukrainian territory, in particular in Donbass (annexed Crimea is considered Russian territory under Russian law). He also said that Russia is not preparing a military invasion - "it would be madness to do so" - but is ready to take some "countermeasures" in case of NATO expansion.