KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is warning that Russia could still invade Ukraine within days.
At the same time, the No. 2 diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was expelled as tensions flared anew in the worst East-West standoff in decades.
NATO allies accused Russia of misleading the world with “disinformation” by saying it was returning some troops to their bases – one of the gestures Russia made this week that briefly cooled temperatures and raised hopes for peace.
Russia is believed to have some 150,000 forces around Ukraine’s borders.
Tensions also spiked along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO allies are accusing Russia of misleading the world and disseminating “disinformation” by saying it was returning some troops to bases.
They charge that Moscow has instead added as many as 7,000 more troops near its tense border with Ukraine.
With Western fears high that Russia is planning to invade, tensions also spiked Thursday along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east.
The parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.
After a handful of positive signals from Russia that lowered the temperature in the crisis earlier in the week, the pendulum appeared to be swinging in the opposite direction again. Russia has massed 150,000-plus troops near Ukraine.
