The Ukraine crisis is coming to a head. The US fears that there could be a Russian invasion of Ukraine in the coming days. Russia’s President Putin and his counterpart Joe Biden now want to talk to each other in the midst of the crisis.
In the Ukraine crisis, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be on the phone again at the weekend. “They will speak on Saturday morning,” a US government official said on Friday. Russia suggested a phone call for Monday. “We then suggested Saturday and they accepted it.” Saturday morning in Washington corresponds to noon or early afternoon in Germany.
The US and Russian chiefs of staff, Mark Milley and Valeri Gerasimov, spoke on the phone on Friday. The US Department of Defense said the conversation was about security issues, without giving any further details.
“Very clear possibility that Russia will choose military action”
According to Western sources, Russia has massed more than 100,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine in recent months. In Ukraine, as in the West, this is fueling fears of a major Russian attack on the neighboring country. Russia denies any attack plans. At the same time, the Kremlin says it feels threatened by NATO.
Hectic crisis diplomacy has been going on for weeks to prevent the conflict from escalating. Biden and Putin last spoke to each other on the phone at the end of December.
On Friday, Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned that there was a “very clear possibility that Russia will decide to take military action.” According to Sullivan, an attack could still take place during the current Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Source: Stern
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