Blinken sees it likely that the Russian invasion will take place before the end of the Winter Olympics on the 20th
The United States seems to be the only actor in the Ukraine crisis totally convinced that Russia, sooner rather than later, will end up invading the neighboring country. Some Pentagon strategists even limit the delay of a military operation by the Kremlin to a climatological issue and affirm that the fact that the soil in the region is not completely frozen means that the tanks that Moscow has deployed on the border could have problems advancing. towards Kyiv.
Certain that war is imminent, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said this Friday in Melbourne, where he is on an official visit, that Russian forces plan to set foot on Ukrainian territory during the current Winter Olympics being held in Beijing until the 20th. For this reason, he called for Americans residing in the European country to leave immediately. “We simply continue to see worrying signs of escalation, including more soldiers arriving at the border,” he said after meeting with his counterparts from India, Japan and Australia.
The truth is that Russia, which already had more than 100,000 soldiers near Ukraine, has moved more troops to the region in recent hours, according to satellite images obtained by a private US company. “Things could get crazy fast,” President Joe Biden told NBC News television before holding telephone conversations to discuss the crisis with the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Poland and Romania, as well as as with the heads of NATO and the EU.
Critical point
Biden also met with his national security advisers in the White House Situation Room on Thursday night. Senior officials told him the crisis could be coming to a head with Moscow’s toughening rhetoric, sending six warships to the Black Sea and more military equipment to Belarus.
Likewise, the chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, and the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, held telephone conversations, according to the Interfax news agency. They talked about international security and Moscow again denied that it plans to invade Ukraine, although it could take unspecified “technical-military” measures.
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