Abroad|Correspondent ‘s comment
The President of the United States stated for the first time that he was sure that the President of Russia had decided to attack Ukraine, writes Elina Väntönen, the HS correspondent in Washington.
Washington
“I am sure he has made a decision. ”
This sentence the President of the United States Joe Biden many were horrified by Finnish time late Friday night.
At his press conference, the President spoke of two major news items: 1) The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has decided to attack Ukraine. 2) The target is likely to be the country’s capital Kiev.
The descriptive moment was seen when the press conference was already coming to an end. One of the journalists insisted on raising his voice and asked the President to repeat his statement: Did you really mean that? Are you convinced that Putin has decided to attack Ukraine?
Yes, the president replied.
The reassurance shows that this was great news and a significant change from the previous view of the United States.
So far, the president and his auxiliaries have reiterated that the president of Russia No have not made the decision to attack. The threat of an attack has been talked about for weeks, but no such straightforwardness has been heard.
Now the voice on the clock had changed, even though it was only three days since the president’s last press conference on Ukraine.
BIDEN stated that the information was, as in the past, based on “good intelligence”.
The United States has recently used tactics in the Ukraine crisis that have revealed intelligence in near real time. The intention has been to weaken Moscow’s chances of a surprise attack and to make it known that Russia is probably looking for an excuse to launch the attack by all means.
No further details on the quality of the intelligence have been provided. The United States has argued that by dividing them, it could jeopardize its sources or otherwise become over-disclosed about how the country’s intelligence works.
Perhaps intelligence now suggests that in the last three days – after the previous press conference – Putin has issued an order to launch the attack on a specific date. Or for the most part on standby forces have convinced the United States.
Earlier, the United States thought Wednesday last week was a possible day of invasion, but it was not stated at the presidential mouth.
The United States in any case, Putin has now decided to abandon diplomacy and is likely to attack Kiev, the “city of 2.8 million innocent people”.
The fact that the target was the capital Kiev was the second big news of the press conference. It is unclear what this would really mean – bombing the city, targeting ground forces towards the city or something else – and whether it would be the first or the final target.
In any case, Biden spoke for the first time in the tone that a war between Russia and Ukraine may be inevitable.
However, diplomacy is possible as long as the attack is not carried out.
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