Americans in Ukraine Should Leave the country, “Things could go Crazy”: US President Biden
New Delhi: The US president Joe Biden advised the citizens of the US in Ukraine to leave the country as the situation may worsen at the border. Countering Russia, the US president said, “Americal citizens in Ukraine, leave the country immediately. We are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. It’s a very different situation, and things could go crazy quickly,”
Washington-Moscow tensions are at their highest since the Cold War, with some US estimates saying some 130,000 Russian soldiers grouped in dozens of combat brigades near the border with Ukraine.
“That’s a world war. When Americans and Russians start shooting one another, we’re in a very different world,” he said.
Biden’s remarks were released hours after Russia rolled its tanks across Belarus for live-fire drills that drew an ominous warning from NATO and added urgency to Western efforts to avert war on the continent.
NATO said Russia’s deployment of missiles, heavy armor, and machine-gun toting soldiers marked a “dangerous moment” for Europe some three decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Western leaders have been shuttling to Moscow in an effort to keep the lines of communication open, giving Russia a chance to air its grievances about NATO’s expansion into eastern Europe and ex-Soviet states.
“Russia should not underestimate our unity and determination as a partner in the EU and as an ally in NATO,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned.
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