In a speech Tuesday at the White House, Biden said to Russian citizens that the US and its allies are not a threat to them.
President Joe Biden made an appeal for diplomacy to continue as the world watches to see if Vladimir Putin orders an invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine's border in recent weeks, according to US estimates, raising fears from Western and Ukrainian intelligence officials that an invasion could be imminent. Russia announced earlier Tuesday that some of its troops would return to base after completing recent drills, but stressed that major military exercises would continue.
Biden held phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the weekend. "We cannot perfectly predict the day, but we have now been saying for some time that we are in the window, and an invasion could begin, a major military action could begin by Russia in Ukraine any day now -- that includes this coming week, before the end of the Olympics," Sullivan told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday's"State of the Union."
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday accused Western countries and the press of spreading a"large-scale disinformation campaign" about an allegedly impending Russian invasion of Ukraine"in order to divert attention from their own aggressive actions."
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