German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine on Monday, part of a flurry of Western diplomacy aimed at heading off a feared Russian invasion that some warn could be just days away.
Scholz plans to continue on to Moscow, where he will try to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to back down.
Ukraine's air traffic safety agency Ukraerorukh issued a statement declaring the airspace over the Black Sea to be a"zone of potential danger" because of Russian naval drills and recommended that planes avoid flying over the sea Feb. 14-19. So far, those warnings appear to have had little effect: Russia has only beefed up troops and weapons in the region and launched massive drills in its ally Belarus, which also neighbors Ukraine. The West fears that the drills, which entered their decisive phase last week and will run through Sunday, could be used by Moscow as a cover for an invasion from the north.
Ukraine's ambassador to the U.K., Vadym Prystaiko, seemed to suggest just such a middle path, telling the BBC on Sunday that the country could abandon its goal of joining NATO - an objective that is written into its constitution - if it would avert war with Russia. In an hourlong Saturday call with Putin, U.S. President Joe Biden said that invading 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.
His office's readout of the call also quoted him suggesting that a quick Biden visit would help deescalate the situation - signaling Zelenskyy's hope the U.S. leader might actually come. That possibility was not mentioned in the White House summary of the call.
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