🇺🇦 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council said that the Ukrainian security forces are not going to attack anyone

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Kiev sees no reason to talk about plans for a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has been recording the movement of troops near the border for a long time, said the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council

🇺🇦 4 countries notified Ukraine of their intention to evacuate the families of their diplomats - the USA, Britain, Australia and Germany

MFA OF UKRAINE

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡White House says it is refining military plans for all Ukrainian crisis scenarios

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡U.S. not yet ready to announce responses to Russian proposals on security guarantees - White House

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Speaker Pelosi has asked the White House for an all-member, bipartisan briefing on Ukraine/Russia situation

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 BuzzFeed News, quoting source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

“Americans are safer in Kyiv than they are in Los Angeles ... or any other crime-ridden city in the US.”

⚡️US increases readiness of its troops at home & abroad due to Ukraine crisis - Pentagon

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🇷🇺 Russian Military Channel, 'Military Corner' on Telegram:
— "🇺🇦⚔ The authorities of Ukraine are forming the first stage of the Territorial Defense Forces (STO), in the border areas they are formed by 70% - 🇺🇦⚔ Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov"

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🇺🇸🦅 US Department of Defense Press Secretary John Kirby during the ongoing press conference:
— "The 🇺🇸 US is taking steps to heighten the readiness of forces at home and abroad so they are prepared to support a range of contingencies, including the NATO Response Force if it is activated"

🇺🇸🦅 US Department of Defense/Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby:
— "About 8,500 American units have been placed on a "heightened preparedness to deploy.""

— 🇺🇸🦅 US Department of Defense Spokesman John Kirby announcing steps to ready multi-national NATO response force (NRF) of 40,000 troops "if it is activated...to defeat aggression, if necessary" against Russia.

🇺🇲 As of now the decision has been made to pace these units on heightened alerts & heightened alert only" per Pentagon PresSec. Some units been told to be ready to deploy in as little as 5 days, he says "No final decision has been made to deploy them"

🇺🇲 🇷🇺 "It's very clear the Russians have no intention right now of deescalating" per Pentagon PresSec on timing of this announcement of heightened alert

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 No decision to pull out those US forces currently in Ukraine working as military advisers/trainers, Pentagon spox Kirby says

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Size of Russian forces around Ukraine "Has gotten bigger. Absolutely" per Pentagon PresSec - "They are in fact adding more"

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 No plans for U.S. troops to deploy to Ukraine to deter Russia. If Putin invades, he faces largely "economic consequences," Kirby says

🇵🇱 Tomorrow starts the construction of a wall on the Polish border with Belarus: 5.5 m high, 186 km long.

🇵🇱 "There are no indications that Poland is in any danger at this moment," President Duda

🇺🇸 Pentagon has announced that Javelin anti-tank missiles and air defense systems from the United States will arrive in Kyiv soon.