Biden and Putin to speak as Ukraine tensions soar: Live news | Ukraine-Russia crisis News
US and Russian presidents will talk as Western nations warned that a war in Ukraine could ignite at any moment.
US President Joe Biden is set to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday after the United States warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could begin in days.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he will speak to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday, adding that Washington and its allies would swiftly impose severe economic sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has told its citizens in Ukraine not to expect a military evacuation if a Russian invasion ensues, after warning them to leave the country on Friday.
Hello, and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the Ukraine-Russia crisis. I am Linah Alsaafin with the latest updates.
Biden and Putin to talk as Ukraine warnings mount
Presidents Biden and Putin are set to hold talks on Saturday as Washington detailed increasingly vivid accounts of a possible attack on Ukraine.
Putin requested for the telephone call to take place on Monday, a White House official said, but Biden wanted to conduct it sooner.
Putin, jostling for influence in post-Cold War Europe, is seeking security guarantees from Biden to block Kyiv’s entry into NATO and missile deployments near Russia’s borders.
Washington regards many of the proposals as non-starters but has pushed the Kremlin to discuss them jointly with Washington and its European allies.
Blinken says he will speak to Russia’s Lavrov
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will speak to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov about Russia’s response to US proposals to resolve the crisis.
“If Russia is genuinely interested in resolving this crisis of its own making through diplomacy and dialogue, we’re prepared to do that,” he said in a news conference in Fiji.
“But it must take place in the context of de-escalation. So far, we’ve only seen escalation from Moscow.”
UK tells its citizens in Ukraine not to expect military evacuation
British nationals who choose to stay in Ukraine should not expect a military evacuation if conflict with Russia ensues, junior defence minister James Heappey told Sky News.
“British nationals should leave Ukraine immediately by any means possible and they should not expect, as they saw in the summer with Afghanistan, that there would be any possibility of a military evacuation,” he said.
On Friday, the UK government advised British nationals to leave Ukraine immediately while commercial means were still available and advised against all further travel to the country.
You can see updates from Friday, February 11 here.
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