🇺🇸⚡US President Joe Biden:

🔹️ The United States and allies are ready for any development of events;
🔹️ Together with allies and partners, we are working along the path of diplomacy;
🔹️ This week I spoke with President Putin;
🔹️ we proposed new elements of strategic stability and security;
🔹️ we will not deviate from the basic principles: each country has the right to choose with whom to be (in the union);
🔹️ at the moment we do not confirm the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian border;
🔹️ Russian troops are on the attack position;
🔹️ American citizens must leave Ukraine before things get worse;
🔹️ we do not threaten Russia, we are not looking for ways to destabilize Russia, Russia is not our enemy, we have long historical ties;
🔹️ Russian invasion will lead to dire consequences;
🔹️ if Russia chooses the path of war, a unified response from the West will follow;
🔹️ this is more than Russia and Ukraine, this is the fate of the world;
🔹️ The United States and our partners are ready to introduce unprecedented sanctions if Russia chooses the path of invasion;
🔹️ The United States does not plan to place missiles on the territory of Ukraine;
🔹️ we sent additional forces to the eastern flank of NATO;
🔹️ more than 150 thousand Russian military are concentrated on the Ukrainian border;
🔹️ we are not looking for a confrontation with Russia;
🔹️ if Russia strikes and American citizens suffer - we will respond.

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⚡Russia's envoy to the 🇪🇺 European Union Vladimir Chizhov said there will be no escalation of military action in Ukraine.

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Russian army, Putin's favoured foreign policy tool

Whether they have been camped out on Ukraine's borders or moving tanks across the vast country, Russia's battle-hardened troops have made the world listen to Vladimir Putin, who wants to redefine European security.

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE TENSIONS: Can Moscow withstand more sanctions?

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🇵🇱⚡POLAND – Prime Minister Morawiecki on the Polish-Belarusian border of the EU: "Today we can see that our sovereignty and independence are also threatened to some extent, because the attack on the eastern part of Europe planned by the Kremlin is also an attack on the eastern flank of NATO."

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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday said Russia seemed to be building up its forces around Ukraine, despite Moscow announcing the pullback of more forces from the border.

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BREAKING – 🇺🇸⚡ US condemns Russian bid to recognize Ukraine separatist provinces: Blinken

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JUST IN – Biden is holding a phone call with German Chancellor Scholz today

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BREAKING – Israel is blocking the transfer of Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine (has to be approved by both countries) because they don’t want to antagonize Russia.

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URGENT – NATO defense ministers said Russia's recognition of the DPR and LPR would be a violation of Ukraine's sovereignty

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🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Twitter:

"Reports of alleged abnormal military activity by Ukraine in Donbas are a blatant attempt by the Russian government to fabricate pretexts for invasion.

This is straight out of the Kremlin playbook.

🇬🇧 will continue to call out Russia’s disinformation."

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NEW – NATO still sees no signs of a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and continues to monitor the situation around the border, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference.

Stoltenberg stressed that, "on the contrary, Russia's military build-up is likely to continue."

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BREAKING – The Norwegian Minister of Defence will not participate in the Munich Security Conference as planned, but will return to Norway from Brussels later today:

"To be available for decision-making, due to the current situation"

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BREAKING – US Secretary of Defence U.S. Blinken says Russia’s military buildup of ‘more’ than 150,000 troops on Ukraine’s border is a ‘manufactured provocation’

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JUST IN – 🇺🇸⚡US looks into Russia's response to Washington's response to security guarantees - Blinken

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🇺🇸⚡"The most immediate threat to peace and security is Russia's looming aggression against Ukraine," Blinken

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BIG ⚠️ "This crisis directly affects every member of this council and every country in the world," Blinken says at the UN

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Fact: Russian backed forces shelled kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine today. We need all the eyes of the democratic world to be in Ukraine today to monitor, witness the truth and by doing so to prevent aggressor from such provocations and further attacks.

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JUST IN – Russian army in Belarus threatens Baltic states and Poland, says Lithuanian president – Reuters

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🌐⚡US, Allies Warn Possible Russian Cyberattacks Could Reverberate Globally 

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"With an unprecedented deployment of troops on the border with Ukraine and Cold War demands, Russia is challenging fundamental principles of the European peace order," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says, ahead of the annual Munich Security Conference

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