Ukraine urges calm, saying Russian invasion not imminent

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Ukraine’s leaders are seeking to reassure the nation that a feared invasion from Russia is not imminent, even as they acknowledge the threat is real and prepare to receive a shipment of American military equipment to shore up their defenses.

at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country, and it said that nonessential embassy staff could leave. Britain said it, too, was withdrawing some diplomats and dependents from its embassy.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday that the situation was “under control” and that there is “no reason to panic.”

“There are risky scenarios. They’re possible and probable in the future,” Reznikov told Ukraine’s ICTV channel on Monday. “But as of today ... such a threat doesn’t exist.” “As of today, we don’t see any grounds for statements about a full-scale offensive on our country,” Danilov said Monday. In the latest standoff, Russia has demanded guarantees from the West that NATO would never allow Ukraine to join and that the alliance would curtail other actions, such as stationing troops in former Soviet bloc countries. Some of these, like any pledge to permanently bar Ukraine, are non-starters for NATO — creating a seemingly intractable stalemate that many fear can only end in war.

 

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Russia does this every year to some extent to-Jack up the price of gasoline.

how do you reassure ? the decisions are horrifying - stay / go ? regardless there should be sanctions starting yesterday - he's unacceptable - insane

Are any of the European countries helping out Ukraine? If America is giving them military equipment and putting 8,500 troops on alert, what are they doing?

Is this in Chicago?

What's going in for sure no one knows, but it's really scary.

Talked it up too much and it now threatens to split the country. 🤷‍♂️

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