Ukraine Live Updates: Shelling Raises Fears Ukraine Conflict Is Heating Up
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Blinken tells the U.N. that Russia is preparing to attack Ukraine ‘in the coming days.’
...Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said that despite Russian denials, U.S. intelligence believed Mr. Putin would launch an assault against Ukraine, and challenged Moscow to say it would not.
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Biden, who said in brief remarks outside the White House that while “there is a path” to a diplomatic resolution, he still expected Mr. Putin to launch an invasion within several days.
“Every indication we have is they’re prepared to go into Ukraine,” he said.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, who met with the head of NATO
in Brussels, said Russia continued to move troops closer to Ukraine’s
borders, was adding combat aircraft and was stocking up on blood
supplies in anticipation of casualties on the battlefield.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made it clear once again that
NATO membership is key to his country’s long-term security. “It’s not an
ambition,” he said in brief comments to the BBC. “It’s our life.”
WHAT?! It was a "dream" you had to let go of just a few days ago. What is this?
