U.S. has intelligence that Russian commanders have orders to proceed with Ukraine invasion.
taking place in the country near Ukraine's northern borders, which brought a large contingent of Russian troops to Belarus.
While top U.S. officials have warned Russia is poised to strike Ukraine and the Pentagon has sent roughly 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe to bolster NATO forces, the Biden administration continues to keep a diplomatic option on the table. The president has stressed no American forces would go into Ukraine if Russia invades.
"We are calling not only on [the] aggressor, which is Russia, but also on all of our friends and allies to get together and use every opportunity to still deter Russia from invading," sheMarkarova said that while Ukraine will"work day and night to make use of any possibility to still prevent Russia from invading," events of the past few days indicate that an escalation is likely, contrary to comments from Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
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