Biden administration officials warned Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin could invade Ukraine before the end of the Olympics
Biden and Germany’s new chancellor sought to project a united front to deter Russia from invading Ukraine, but differences remain if there is an attack.
Aside from the separatists and units stationed in Transnistria, just over the border from the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa, Russian troops are massed on Ukraine’s eastern and northeastern frontiers, and on its 674-mile border with Belarus. Russia has also assembled a formidable force in the Black Sea, bringing in six warships and a submarine, as part of naval drills there and in the Sea of Azov.
before the country was overrun by the Taliban. In the weeks before Kabul fell, Biden scoffed at the possibility of the government’s swift collapse. Putin had hoped that his steady buildup of forces on Ukraine’s borders would compel NATO members to give him a guarantee that Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, would never be granted membership in the alliance.
In Ukraine on Friday, residents of Odessa, the nation’s main gateway to the Black Sea, expressed little urgency, despite the White House statements.
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