President Biden to convene a meeting of the National Security Council on the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
Biden's national security team has “reaffirmed that Russia could launch an attack against Ukraine at any time,” White House press secretary Jen PsakiThe meeting is set to take place Sunday morning in the Situation room and Vice President Kamala Harris, who's flying back from Germany after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the annual Munich Security Conference, will also participate remotely from Air Force Two, a White House official said.
"Yes, look, we're doing everything we can," he said."And it's my responsibility to do everything I can to try diplomatically to prevent a war." Officials in the separatist territories claimed Ukrainian forces launched several artillery attacks over the past days, and that two civilians were killed in an unsuccessful assault on a village under their control early Sunday.
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