Defense
Officials in the U.S. and the U.K. are telling their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately.
An man holds his luggage as he crosses from pro-Russian separatists to Ukrainian government controlled territory in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point which is open daily, in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine on Feb. 11. | Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo
By Paul McLeary and Nahal Toosi
02/11/2022 04:09 PM EST
Updated: 02/11/2022 04:23 PM EST
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The U.S. is sending 3,000 more troops to Poland as the Biden administration issued new warnings that Russia was poised to invade Ukraine at any moment.
Washington and London, meanwhile, are urging their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately.
The alarms were the most strident to date of a crisis that began last fall as Russia significantly built up troops along the Ukrainian border, and they came as diplomatic efforts to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to abandon thoughts of invasion appear to, at best, have stalled out.
The warnings also come as Russia kicked off a major military exercise in Belarus with tens of thousands of troops, leading to new concerns that the push into Ukraine could come under the guise of the drills.
