Some airlines have halted or diverted flights to Ukraine amid heightened fears of a potential invasion by Russia.
Travelers wait at the check-in counter ahead of their Ukraine International Airlines flight to Kyiv at Israel's Ben Gurion airport in Lod near Tel Aviv on February 13, 2022. that an invasion by Russia is imminent despite intensive weekend talks between Moscow and Washington.said an invasion of Ukraine would cause "widespread human suffering" and that the West was committed to diplomacy to end the crisis but "equally prepared for other scenarios," the White House said.
Reflecting the West's concerns, Dutch airline KLM has canceled flights to Ukraine until further notice, the company said Saturday. Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhii Nykyforov told The Associated Press that Ukraine has not closed its airspace. A statement from the Infrastructure Ministry said: "Some carriers are experiencing difficulties associated with fluctuations in the insurance markets.", following a call between Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron earlier in the day, came at a critical moment for what has become the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. U.S.
Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, said that while tensions have been escalating for months, in recent days "the situation has simply been brought to the point of absurdity."that could be imposed on Russia, but "this issue was not the focus during a fairly long conversation with the Russian leader."
Further U.S.-Russia tensions arose on Saturday when the Defense Ministry summoned the U.S. Embassy’s military attache after it said the navy detected an American submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. The submarine declined orders to leave, but departed after the navy used unspecified "appropriate means," the ministry said.
Biden has bolstered the U.S. military presence in Europe as reassurance to allies on NATO’s eastern flank. The 3,000 additional soldiers ordered to Poland come on top of 1,700 who are on their way there. The U.S. Army also is shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania, which like Poland shares a border with Ukraine.
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