Linda Thomas-Greenfield
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Today’s meeting of the National Security Council should not distract us from that. We must focus on what is happening in Ukraine right now,” Thomas-Greenfield added.
Overnight, after a series of conversations with the White House, the National Security Council and the State Department, I asked Secretary of State Blinken to speak directly to the UN Security Council on the way to Munich about the serious situation in Ukraine, Thomas-Greenfield elaborated.
That’s why Secretary Blinken is coming to New York on his way to Munich to demonstrate our strong commitment to diplomacy, offer a path to de-escalation, and let the world know we’re doing everything we can to prevent war,” Thomas-Greenfield concluded.
Diplomatic events unfolded after Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of attacking a village near the border.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s trip to the UN begins as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin concludes a two-day meeting with NATO defense ministers in Brussels.
For months, the US and its Western allies have watched the Kremlin’s steady buildup along Ukraine’s border with Russia and Belarus. The increase in military presence echoes Russia ’s actions ahead of the illegal annexation of Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea, in 2014, which caused international outcry and led to sanctions against Moscow.
The Kremlin denies that the extraordinary deployment of Russian troops equipped with advanced military equipment along Ukraine’s borders is preparation for an invasion.
Focus previously reported that Ukrainian intelligence saw no signs withdrawal of Russian troops from the border.
According to Estonian intelligence, the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is saved.
RF is going to insist that NATO refused to accept Ukraine into its ranks .
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