According to the source, the conversation between the presidents of Ukraine and America on Thursday evening “did not succeed”. Presumably, the presidents did not find common ground on the “level of risk”.
Speaking on the phone and calling the CNN interlocutor “long and open,” Biden warned Zelensky that Russia’s invasion was “virtually imminent” as cooling in the region was expected in February and that the Russian ground would be much easier to reach.
The president of Ukraine, according to a source, assured that the threat from the Russian Federation remains “dangerous but not imminent”, and it is certainly not possible to say now that the attack will undoubtedly take place.
However, as CNN writes, Washington is reluctant to accept such a version of the presidential phone call.
According to National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne, anonymous sources are “spreading lies.”
“President Biden said there was a high probability that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February. He has said this in public, and we have been warning about it for months. All the negative statements are lies, “she said.
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On Friday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that at the border with Ukraine is about 112 thousand. Russian troops, and including the naval and air forces, this number is about 130 thousand.
“We are now watching units with about 112,000 people. people o [priskaičiavus] marine [pajėgų] and the aviation component it is about 130 thousand. people. In April last year, the combat component mobilized by Russia amounted to 126 thousand. people. So, the amount is similar then and now. The reaction is incomparable, “the minister said during” Question Hour with the Government “in the Verkhovna Rada.
According to Reznikov, Russia has deployed 300 more tanks than in the spring, but the Ukrainian army now has ten times more modern anti-tank assets, including Stuhna, Korsar, Javelin and NLAW, than there are potential targets.
Reznikov also pointed out that six large landing craft from Russia’s northern and Baltic fleets have entered the Mediterranean and may enter the Black Sea.
“We know what Marine units are on these ships, and the US Navy’s carrier group knows even better,” Reznikov added.
At the time, the Pentagon is announcing that Russia is continuing to mobilize units.
According to the US government, Russia has further strengthened its forces on the Ukrainian border in the last 24 hours. “If we talk about the mobilization of Russian forces, we see that – and in the last 24 hours – Russia has continued to mobilize combat units in the western part of the country and in Belarus,” John Kirby, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said on Thursday. He did not want to say how much the number of armed forces had increased. The mobilization was not “dramatic”, but it “has not stopped”.
Mr Kirby has announced further military support for Ukraine. She is expected to reach the country soon. “We will not name every item in these shipments one by one,” he said. Given the concentration of forces on the Ukrainian border, care must be taken with this information. “We are in constant contact with Ukraine about its needs and capabilities,” Kirby said.
NATO countries and many other countries criticize the concentration of units on the border with Ukraine. Intelligence fears Russian invasion of a neighboring country. However, it is possible that this is a means of pressure to force NATO to accept Russia’s proposals for new security agreements.
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