US : Will Make Any Russian Invasion Of Ukraine "Very, Very Difficult"

 US and Ukraine say Russia has massed troops close to Ukraine's borders and accuse the us of a of making plans an invasion.

US President Joe Biden stated Friday he could make it "very, very hard" for Russia to release any invasion of Ukraine, which warned that a large-scale assault can be deliberate for subsequent month.

Washington and Kiev say Moscow has massed troops close to Ukraine's borders and accuse Russia of making plans an invasion.

Biden and President Vladimir Putin are because of keep a video name rapidly to talk about the growing tensions, each aspects showed Friday.

Biden informed journalists in Washington he changed into placing together "the maximum complete and significant set of tasks to make it very, very hard for Mr Putin to head in advance and do what humans are concerned he can also additionally do."

Moscow seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and has on account that subsidized separatists combating Kiev withinside the east of the us of a. The warfare has left greater than 13,000 dead.

"The maximum probably time to attain readiness for escalation could be the stop of January," Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov informed parliament in Kiev on Friday.

A record withinside the Washington Post on Friday mentioning US officers and an intelligence file stated Russia changed into making plans a multi-the front offensive concerning as much as 175,000 troops as quickly as subsequent year.

Reznikov stated a "iciness schooling period" had commenced in Russia and that Moscow had already released sporting events close to Ukrainian territory.

He predicted that Russia had round 100,000 troops close to Ukraine's border. Russia denies any navy build-up.

"This is our land"

On the frontline in jap Ukraine, authorities troops stated they have been prepared to repel any Russian assault.

"Our project is simple: now no longer to allow the enemy input our us of a," a soldier named Andriy, 29, informed AFP, smoking in a trench close to the frontline metropolis of Svitlodarsk.

"All our men are prepared to keep them back. This is our land, we are able to guard it till the stop," any other soldier, Yevgen, 24, added.

Kremlin overseas coverage adviser Yuri Ushakov informed journalists a date have been agreed for the Putin-Biden video summit however could now no longer be introduced till very last info of the talks have additionally been set.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the decision changed into expected "withinside the very close to future."

Asked if he had spoken to Putin on Friday morning, Biden shouted "no" as he left a press convention in Washington.

He gave no in addition info of his deliberate "tasks" on Ukraine.

Putin has warned the West and Kiev towards crossing the Kremlin's "pink lines" over staging navy sporting events and constructing up weaponry in Ukraine.

When journalists requested Biden whether or not he could receive Putin's line, he responded, "I may not receive anybody's pink line."

Despite improved contacts among the 2 competitors on account that Putin and Biden met for the primary time at a summit in Geneva in June, tensions continue to be high.

As properly because the Ukraine warfare, Russia and the USA keep to argue over cyberattacks and the staffing in their embassies, after numerous waves of diplomatic expulsions.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba informed AFP on Friday that it rejects any efforts to get it to scrap its plans to sign up for NATO.

Moscow desires to see an stop to NATO's eastward expansion, after a good deal of Eastern Europe joined the alliance following the disintegrate of the Soviet Union.

Agreeing to desert its plans to sign up for the alliance "isn't always an option," Kuleba stated at the sidelines of an OSCE assembly in Stockholm.

"I reject this concept that we should assure something to Russia. I insist that it is Russia who has to assure that it's going to now no longer keep its aggression towards any us of a," he stated.