Russia Ukraine news: Russia orders final preparations for invasion, claims US
India TV NewsHighlights Residents of Ukraine’s capital filled a gold-domed cathedral to pray for peace At least 1,50,000 Russian troops are deployed outside Ukraine’s borders, along with tanks, warplanes In Kyiv, life outwardly continued as usual for many on a mild winter Sunday Russia on Sunday rescinded earlier pledges to pull tens of thousands of its troops back from Ukraine’s northern border, a move that US leaders said put Russia another step closer to what they said was the planned invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s action extends what it said were military exercises, originally set to end Sunday, that brought an estimated 30,000 Russian forces to Belarus, Ukraine’s neighbor to the north. “We’re talking about the potential for war in Europe,” U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said earlier Sunday at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that saw urgent consultations among world leaders on the crisis. Macron’s office said both the Ukrainian and Russian leaders had agreed to work toward a diplomatic solution “in coming days and coming weeks.” Blinken, the United States’ top diplomat, on Sunday renewed his offer to meet one-on-one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week — on the condition, he said, that Putin has not invaded Ukraine by then.