French President Emmanuel Macron flew to Kyiv on Tuesday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
reported Saturday concludes that Russia soon may complete preparations for what appears to be a large-scale invasion. The review predicted that a war could cause Ukraine’s government to collapse within two days, kill or wound up to 50,000 civilians and displace up to 5 million people.The Kremlin began moving troops to regions bordering Ukraine last year. Western officials say more than 100,000 Russian troops are in the region and Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014.
and Poland from their posts in Germany and Fort Bragg, N.C. Previously, the Pentagon put 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert.NATO allies also have repositioned military hardware, with Denmark and Belgium sending F-15 and F-16 fighter jets to the Baltics last month. Britain has offered to sendNATO allies have said so far that they would not send troops to Ukraine in the event of an invasion.