US President Joe Biden told a news conference on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to attack Ukraine. “I firmly believe he made the decision. We have reason to believe so. We hope they will target Kiev, a city of 2.8 million innocent people,” he added. Biden said he expects Russia to launch an attack on Ukraine in the coming days.
According to the US president, Russia wants to create a “false justification” for the war against Ukraine. Mr Biden accused Moscow of carrying out a false propaganda in which Kiev planned to launch an attack on Russia, finding excuses for invading its neighbor.
“There is no evidence to support these assertions, and it is all logical to assume that the Ukrainians will choose when 150,000 (Russian) troops are stationed on their borders to choose the intensity of this conflict that has been going on for years,” he said. Noted.
“All of these events are similar to a situation that Russia has used in the past to create a false justification for action against Ukraine,” he added. “If Russia had implemented its plans, it would have been responsible for a catastrophic and futile war and would have chosen it.”
Despite the increasingly tense situation, “it was not too late,” he said, sending Joe Biden to Russia. US President Anthony Blingen has confirmed that he will meet with Russian envoy to Europe Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to defuse the situation.
He warned that if Russia invaded Ukraine by then, it would “open the door to diplomacy.”
Mr President said that it would be “wise” for President Volodymyr Zhelensky to leave Ukraine at this time to attend an international conference. Biden was surprised and believed he was the one making the decision.
“In the quest for a diplomatic decision, it may not be, it may be a wise choice, but the decision is his,” Biden said without making a clear decision. The question arises as to whether Zhelensky is going to Munich Security. Conference uniting many international leaders until Sunday.
According to a Pentagon official, “40% of Russian troops are under attack.”
A Pentagon official said Friday that more than 40% of Russian troops concentrated on Ukraine’s borders are now under attack. The United States, which now estimates more than 150,000 Russian troops in northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, has been monitoring the movement of Russian troops toward the border since Wednesday, an unnamed U.S. Defense Department official said. .
“40 to 50% are under attack. They have been sent to tactical assembly points in the last 48 hours,” he told some reporters.
Tactical assembly points are areas adjacent to the front line where a military unit can be mobilized before launching an attack.
The official said there were 125 military battalions in Moscow on Friday near the Ukrainian border, up from 60 in normal times and 80 in early February.
The escalation of the conflict between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces is in line with the pro-Russian and pro-Kremlin leaders’ propaganda (which) is in line with the propaganda of instability in Ukraine “in the Russian-speaking regions of Donbass and Lukansk, according to the official.
Washington has been warning for weeks that Russia will cause an incident on the Ukrainian border to justify its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia denies any plan of aggression but demands guarantees for its security, such as the withdrawal of NATO from Eastern Europe, which has been rejected by the West.
Moscow, in addition to supporting pro-armed separatists, has already annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in 2014.
Macron will meet Putin on Sunday: “We must avoid the worst”
The Elysee Palace said on Friday evening that French President Emmanuel Macron would try to “avoid the worst” in Ukraine by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zhelensky on Saturday.
French President Emmanuel Macron will speak by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zhelensky on Saturday, and will try again “to avoid the worst in Ukraine,” Elysee Palace said on Friday evening.
“Trying everything, doing everything possible to prevent the worst,” he said, hammering the French presidency, prompting Kiev’s “risk of Russian invasion of government-controlled Ukrainian territory.” Pro-Russian separatist territories in eastern Ukraine.
“We believe that we still have the potential to prevent President Putin from launching an attack on Ukraine,” said Emmanuel Macron’s adviser after a telephone exchange between the heads of state and the government of key Western countries.
The exchange brought together American Joe Biden, Canadian Justin Trudeau, Ursula van der Leyen (President of the European Union), Charles Michel (Chairman of the Council of the European Union), Italian Mario Draghi, Jens Stoltenberg (President of NATO), German Olaf Scholes. , Poland Andrzej Duda, Romanian Klaus Johannes, Britain Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron.
“For the security of the European continent, for Russia, for the European partners, we must do everything we can to avoid a conflict that could accidentally bring us into another geo-strategic framework if Russia invades Ukraine,” Elysium continued.
The French president insisted that the West did not notice the “withdrawal of Russian troops” stationed at the gates of Ukraine, contrary to the announcements made by Russia several days ago.
He further added that President Putin’s visit to Ukraine’s neighboring Belarus on Saturday was a signal of an increase, rather than a “collective maneuver.”
He added that France had “no doubt” that the cyber attacks on Ukraine were “from Russia”.
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