“Let me be clear: These are completely defensive strikes on our half,” President Biden mentioned earlier right now about these deployments. “We have now no intention of preventing Russia.”
Whereas the U.S. authorities has no intention to instantly intervene militarily within the disaster surrounding Ukraine, American officers have acknowledged the likelihood {that a} large-scale battle there may spill over onto NATO territory in Europe. U.S. authorities have mentioned that there are not any energetic plans to conduct any main operation to assist American nationals evacuate from Ukraine, however have declined to rule out that potentiality solely.
The motion of Embassy personnel between websites in Ukraine and Poland, one thing the U.S. State Division says will proceed to occur frequently, underscores the sorts of extra restricted contingencies which may come up and require army help.
The general state of affairs in and round Ukraine stays extremely fluid and the chance of a serious battle erupting continues to be very actual. “We nonetheless imagine that Russia is poised to go a lot additional in launching a large army assault in opposition to Ukraine,” Biden mentioned right now.
“I hope I’m flawed about that, hope we’re flawed about that,” he continued. “However Russia has solely escalated its risk in opposition to the remainder of Ukrainian territory, together with main cities and together with the capital metropolis of Kyiv. …there are nonetheless properly over 150,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine.”
Within the meantime, “we wish to ship an unmistakable message, although, that america, along with our Allies, will defend each inch of NATO territory and abide by the commitments we made to NATO,” the president mentioned.
These further U.S. fighter jets, assault helicopters, and troops, solely additional underscore that dedication amid one of the crucial critical crises in Europe in a long time.
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