President tells population not to panic as Russia surrounds country with more than 100,000 troops
Several thousand Ukrainians rallied in Kyiv on Saturday to show unity amid fears of a Russian invasion, as Ukraine’s leader told people not to panic and pushed back against what he said was a glut of bleak war predictions being reported in the media.has built up more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine and carried out large-scale exercises. The US said on Friday an invasion could start at any moment. Russia denies planning to invade.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who attended police drills in southern Kherson region, said a Russian attack could happen at any time, but pushed back against what he called excessive amounts of information about a major looming war.“The best friend of our enemies is panic in our country. And all this information is just provoking panic and can’t help us,” he said. “I can’t agree or disagree with what hasn’t happened yet. So far, there is no full-scale war in Ukraine.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused the US of seeking to provoke a conflict in Ukraine during a call with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, the Russian foreign ministry said. Lavrov and Blinken spoke by phone as the US president, Joe Biden, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, prepared to sound out the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, later on Saturday after Washington warned that an all-out invasion could begin “any day”.
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