President Biden says the U.S. has 'reason to believe' Russian forces are planning 'to attack” Ukraine in the coming days, including the capital, Kyiv
President Biden said Friday that he is convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, capping a day full of ominous turns toward war between Russia and the former Soviet Republic.
The comments followed similar admonitions from Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken that Russia’s plan to create a pretext for invading Ukraine “is already in play,” with Russian-backed separatists claiming they were the victims of artillery shelling and sabotage.The Biden administration has said it will not send troops to defend Ukraine.
The situation grew more serious at 7 p.m. local time when authorities in Dontesk claimed a car bomb exploded in a parking lot near the government building. The sound of the explosion could “be heard across the entire city,” according to a statement from Donetsk authorities, which urged residents to “remain calm, be vigilant and avoid moving about the city.”
Evacuations were to begin in the evening, with women, children and the elderly being the first sent to safety. The refugees will be housed in the southern Russian region of Rostov, where Russian state media said Putin had dispatched his Emergencies Minister to set up camps. “Militants backed by the Russian federation continue to aggravate the situation by deliberately misleading residents of the temporarily occupied territories,” wrote Lt. Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, the commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, on his official Facebook page.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, speaking from the audience at the Munich Security Conference where Blinken was on stage, thanked allies for their financial support but said “what we need right now [is] defensive weapons.”
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