Meanwhile, the Biden administration is preparing a new security assistance package for Ukraine.
Russia is laying the groundwork to annex parts of Ukraine, according to U.S. intelligence.
Kirby added that the U.S. observed a similar Russian playbook in 2014 ahead of the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula on the Black Sea.
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