Joe Biden told US forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine but to defend and reassure NATO allies in the East. The US had provided over USD 650 million in defensive assistance to Ukraine last year.
· Explosions heard in central Kyiv, 137 dead
President Joe Biden said that the United States had deployed additional troops to defend its NATO allies, particularly in eastern Europe, amidst Russian military forces entering Ukrainian territories.
He told US forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine but to defend and reassure NATO allies in the East. The US had provided over USD
According to news agency AFP, multiple explosions were heard in central Kyiv in the early hours of Friday. These set off day two of shelling and fighting after Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the ‘military operation in Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, said 137 people, including ten military officers, have been killed and 316 people injured.
US President Joe Biden said Washington will intervene if Putin moves into NATO countries, stressing that he will be encouraged if his Russian counterpart is not stopped now. The countries on NATO’s eastern flank, especially the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, have received the first batches of US military troops and equipment.
World leaders have decried the invasion and announced sanctions on Russia. In the wee hours of Friday, Ukraine said it lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site, the site of the 1986 disaster, and the staff at the Chernobyl plant had been “taken, hostage.”
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