Ukraine Joe Biden announces at a meeting with international leaders that Vladimir Putin is going to invade Ukraine
The United States
has decided to close its embassy in Kiev
in fear of an imminent Russian invasion of
Ukraine.
Only a small contingent of diplomats will remain in the west of the country, in the Carpathian Mountains, near the border with Poland, where they could flee if Russia were to occupy the whole of Ukraine, a country larger than Spain.
The decision, which will be officially announced on Saturday morning, Washington time, is one more sign that the
United States considers war practically certain.
Also in the US morning, US President Joe Biden will speak by phone with Russian Vladimir Putin in what appears to be
a last attempt to stop Russian aggression.
The conversation is being held at the behest of Biden.
Putin had tried to postpone it to Monday.
This Friday, Biden spoke with the heads of government of Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy, as well as with the president of the European Commission and with the NATO secretary general.
The US president told them that he has information that Putin has given the order to invade Ukraine, according to the British newspaper
The Guardian.
The Ukrainian government, which had been accusing the United States of alarmism for several weeks, admitted yesterday that "we are surrounded by hostile forces."
Indeed, there are Russian soldiers to the south - in the Black Sea and Crimea, which Russia decided to annex in 2014 when Ukraine left its orbit -, to the east - in Russia -, to the north - in Belarus, a country that has practically become a colony of Russia-, and to the southwest -in Moldova, where the Russian Armed Forces have occupied the territory of Transdniestra since 1992-.
In recent weeks, the Russian Armed Forces
have surrounded Ukraine with more than 120,000 soldiers
and a dozen warships.
The military deployment is massive, challenging the idea that Russia is only attempting a limited military operation in Ukraine.
Rather,
everything points to a gigantic bombardment of a few days
followed by an invasion with armored forces.
According to US analysts,
Russian soldiers are moving by train,
to make detection by satellites more difficult.
Moscow has deployed aircraft armed with Kinzhal missiles, capable of reaching almost all European capitals with a warhead of 500 kilos of explosives.
The Kinzhal, which fly at 10,000 kilometers per hour, are possibly the most advanced missiles in existence.
Russia, moreover, seems to have placed them in the city of Kaliningrad, between Poland and the Baltic Republics, and very close to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.
That could be interpreted as a threat not just to the US, but to NATO as a whole.
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