Russia has enough troops in position to invade deep into Ukraine, U.S. officials say, but Vladimir Putin could still choose diplomacy.
The United States’ top military and Defense commanders on Friday added their voices to stark warnings that Russia may be about to invade Ukraine, while the president of the former Soviet republic separately worked to calm his citizens and criticized the U.S. for sounding an alarm.
A military action would be “horrific” if Russian troops were to push through dense urban areas in the dead of winter, he said. “While we don’t believe that President Putin has made a final decision to use these forces against Ukraine,” Austin said, “he clearly now has that capability.”The U.S. has put 8,500 of its troops on alert, able to deploy to the eastern flank of NATO — not to Ukraine proper — quickly. President Biden told reporters Friday night that he’d be moving troops to Eastern Europe “in the near term.” The U.S.
He and Austin listed an array of tactics Putin could employ short of a military invasion, including a destabilizing sabotage campaign or an effort to stage a coup. Putin could try to replace the elected president of Ukraine or recognize breakaway regions of the country to weaken the central government’s hold, as Moscow has attempted in the east, Milley and Austin said.
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