US President Joe Biden said on Friday that he was "convinced" that Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to invade Ukraine within a week.
Joe Biden said Russian-backed Ukrainian rebels were spreading provocations and were working to eliminate the motive for the Russian attack.
The United States claims that the number of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border has reached 190,000, but British media claim that pro-Russian leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk also ordered the evacuation of 70,000 people, including the elderly, children and women. Is.
Joe Biden insisted that despite all this, it was not too late to limit relations with Russia and return to the negotiating table, but warned that if there was an attack, the Russian president would close all diplomatic doors. Will do
The Kremlin, meanwhile, insists it has no plans to invade its eastern neighbor, but the United States says 41,000 Russian-backed separatists with an estimated 149,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's borders. Fighters are involved, and it remains to be seen when this will happen.
Adding to global unrest, Russia's Defense Ministry has announced that President Putin will today (Saturday) personally observe scheduled exercises on nuclear-capable missiles.
Aiden said in a conference call with NATO allies on Friday that the West would pursue sanctions against Russia if Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
Biden later said: "We continue to be in the lockstep.
According to a senior official, the package of possible sanctions against Russia would be disastrous.
"If Russia invades Ukraine, it will be cut off from the international community," Dilip Singh, the US deputy national security adviser for international economics, told reporters. It will be isolated from the global financial markets and deprived of state-of-the-art technical information.
Dilip Singh predicted that sanctions would cause Russia to face economic problems such as "capital outflows, further pressure on the currency, rising inflation, high debt, economic contraction and declining productivity".
On the other hand, Russian forces are starting military exercises today in which the Air Force, Southern Military District units, as well as the Northern and Black Sea navies will be involved in nuclear-capable missile tests.
Russia says it will not withdraw from Ukraine's border unless Western nations pledge not to include Kiev in NATO and to withdraw US troops from Eastern Europe.
