War fears mount as Putin to oversee drills, Zelensky to meet allies

The Kremlin continues to say it has no plans to attack.

US President Joe Biden said that the invasion would come in the next week or days and that his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin had"made the decision" to invade. But Biden left the door open for a diplomatic resolution.

The United States says that with an estimated 149,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's borders -- as many as 190,000, when including the Russian-backed separatist forces -- an attack is inevitable. There were growing fears that a spark, which Washington warns could be a deliberate"false flag" incident orchestrated by Moscow, could set off the largest military confrontation in Europe since World War II.

Russia's defence ministry announced that President Vladimir Putin would personally oversee previously scheduled drills involving nuclear-capable missilesAn AFP reporter near the front between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the Lugansk region heard explosions and saw damaged civilian buildings on Kyiv's side of the line.

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