The intense concern The West is provoking Moscow’s military blockade of Ukraine, with the United States warning that a Russian invasion could begin at any moment.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the White House, could begin with airstrikes that would make departure flights difficult and endanger civilians.
The United States even informed its allies of information about a Russian attack on February 16, Der Spiegel reports.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite gathering more than 100,000 troops near the border.
At the same time, diplomacy seems to have “frozen”, despite intensive contacts between Western leaders yesterday, Friday, to avoid conflict. Both Joe Biden and Emanuel Macron are expected to reconnect with Vladimir Putin.
Boris Johnson expressed fears for the security of Europe in the teleconference of Western leaders for Ukraine, which was attended by the presidents of the USA and France, the German chancellor and the prime ministers of Britain, Italy and Poland, the secretary general. NATO and the President of the Commission. London issues travel directive urging British citizens not to travel to or leave Ukraine as soon as possible.
“A Russian invasion of Ukraine is possible at any time,” said US Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace earlier in the day, according to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. The United States will send another 3,000 troops to Poland in the coming days in a bid to reassure its NATO allies, four U.S. officials told Reuters. This aid is coming to be added to 8,500 soldiers who is already on alert.
Moscow’s irritation caused by the inglorious end of the negotiations of the political advisers of the leaders of the “Normandy figure” (Russia, Germany, Ukraine, France). In this context, Russia was preparing on Friday to conduct new military exercises near its border with Ukraine.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said yesterday that relations between London and Moscow were at their lowest point during a meeting with his British counterpart Ben Wallace amid the Russia-West crisis over Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, the level of our cooperation is almost to zero “and soon zero will pass and it will become negative,” Soigu estimated. He urged the West to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine, said Russia was not to blame for rising tensions in Europe, and added:
The Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing two diplomatic sources, wrote that during the meeting held the day before yesterday in camera, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Britain, Sergei Lavrov asked his counterpart Liz Tras if he recognized Russia’s sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh – the two areas in southern Russia where Russian forces are concentrated. Tra, always according to the article, replied that Britain did not will never recognize them as Russianand then the British ambassador intervened to correct it.
The Kremlin cites the British Foreign Secretary’s mistake as proof that the West does not understand the conflict in Ukraine.
According to Germany, a new meeting of the Normandy Figure expected in March.
Norway is ready from a business point of view“Against a wide range of Russian military operations in Ukraine, the head of the Norwegian military intelligence services said, stressing that any decision on the outcome now belongs exclusively to the Kremlin.
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