Russia

The United States is discussing the deployment of military forces to Eastern Europe with its NATO allies,
according to the Biden Administration

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered about 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert, preparing for possible deployment to Europe, if needed, to reassure NATO allies in the face of Russian aggression on the border of Ukraine

It’s “a possibility” that Russia will invade Ukraine, “but I think [Putin] is afraid of the response,” said a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Analysts are questioning whether the West can actually deter Russia, and just how far Western allies are willing to go to defend the country.

European stocks tumbled on Monday as investors watched for developments in Ukraine as tensions with Russia grow.

The State Department is ordering the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country and allowing non-essential staff to leave Ukraine

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a British claim that Russia is seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate

On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready.

The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and said former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.

With tens of thousands of Russian troops positioned near Ukraine, the Kremlin has kept the U.S. and its allies guessing about its next moves in the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.

With 100,000 Russian troops amassed near the Ukrainian border, many fear Moscow is preparing to invade.

President Joe Biden clarified comments about Russia and a possible invasion of Ukraine on Thursday after he said in his Wednesday press conference when speaking about a possible invasion “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion.”

A day earlier, President Joe Biden said he expected President Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine. Biden vowed that that move would be “a disaster” for Russia.

The Friday meeting between top U.S. and Russian diplomats comes as Western officials expect Moscow to soon launch an invasion of Ukraine.

A top diplomat from the European Union has accused Russia of not taking Brussels seriously and said it will likely backfire against Moscow.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russia would face stiff economic and military consequences from the U.S. and NATO leaders if it were to invade Ukraine. “Militarily they have overwhelming superiority [over] Ukraine, but they’ll pay a stiff price immediately, near term, medium term and long term if they do it.”

President Joe Biden says he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine and is warning President Vladimir Putin that his country would pay a “dear price” in lives lost and a possible cutoff from the global banking system if it does

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said “borders must not be moved by force” in Europe.

“Russia needs to reinvent itself as a modern state,” Vsevolod Chentsov, the Ukrainian ambassador to the EU, told CNBC Tuesday.

President Joe Biden has rallied European allies to pledge as one that they will take tough measures against Russia if it rolls troops into Ukraine