🇺🇲 🇺🇦 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.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡The US is looking for signs of Russia's "imminent incursion" into Ukraine but sees none of them yet, the Pentagon says.

"We're mindful of things that the Russians could do that would potentially give us indications of some sort of imminent incursion," spokesman John Kirby said. "We're not there yet but we're watching for those indicators very closely."