In two phone calls with Putin, Biden warned of severe consequences if Russia invades Ukraine.
Europeans have showed solidarity, with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visiting the frontline in Ukraine, although some nations are expected to hesitate at the strongest measures.Russia insists that it was deceived after the Cold War and understood that NATO would not expand. Russia seized the Crimean peninsula and backs an insurgency in eastern Ukraine in which more than 13,000 people have died.
But John Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, described the Russian troop build-up as a"gigantic bluff" by Putin to seek a negotiated agreement. Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, said that the Geneva talks were more about preventing the Ukraine crisis from accelerating than reaching a major deal.
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