The clock is inching closer to midnight as war and rumors of war encircle Ukraine, and now the U.S. and U.K. are blaming Russia for trying to invent a pretext for war by attacking a kindergarten.
The Kremlin insists Russian troops are pulling back, but the evidence proves otherwise. President Biden says the likelihood of an invasion is very high.
"They have not moved any of their troops out – moved more troops in, number one. Number two: We have reason to believe they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in," Biden said. "Every indication we have is they are prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine."
Biden is predicting war in the very near future. "My sense it will happen in the next several days," he said.
NATO allies accuse Russia of misleading the world by saying it was returning some troops to bases. Instead, Russia's authoritarian ruler Vladimir Putin added as many as 7,000 more forces near the border where roughly 150,000 Russian soldiers are now surrounding Ukraine.
"What we do know is Russia has amassed the biggest force we have seen in decades," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
"We haven't seen a pullback," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told ABC News. He says Putin "can pull the trigger. He can pull it today. He can pull it tomorrow. He can pull it next week. The forces are there if he wants to renew aggression against Ukraine."
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