Russia already has enough forces to invade Ukraine at any time: US

 The US said any Americans still in Ukraine should leave in the next 24-48 hours because of the risk of attack.

Reuters.- Russia now has enough forces to carry out a major military operation against Ukraine, which could start "at any moment", White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday.

The official said US intelligence services believe Russian President Vladimir Putin could order an invasion before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing and that a swift assault on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, is a possibility.

Sullivan spoke after President Joe Biden held a video call with allied leaders from the White House crisis room and sought support as the situation deteriorated.

It remains unclear, Sullivan said, whether Putin has definitively given the order to launch an invasion. He added that he hopes Biden will phone Putin soon to discuss the crisis.

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The United States will send 3,000 more soldiers to Poland

The United States will send 3,000 more troops to Poland in the coming days to try to help reassure NATO allies, four US officials told Reuters on Friday, as Russia held military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea following a buildup of forces. near Ukraine.

Russia is massing more troops near Ukraine and an invasion could come at any time, perhaps before the end of this month's Winter Olympics in Beijing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

Commercial satellite images released by a private US company showed new Russian military deployments in several locations near Ukraine.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the US troop deployment will come from the 82nd Airborne Division and not US forces in Europe.

One of the officials described it as a major deployment.

The soldiers join the 8,500 troops already on standby to deploy to Europe if necessary and the nearly 3,000 US troops the administration said earlier this month it would deploy to Poland and Romania.

President Joe Biden met with his national security advisers in the White House crisis room Thursday night to discuss Russia's ongoing military buildup around Ukraine.Russia has already massed more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine, this week starting joint military exercises in neighboring Belarus and naval drills in the Black Sea.

Moscow denies it has plans to invade Ukraine, but says it could take unspecified "military-technical" action unless a series of demands are met, including NATO promises never to admit Ukraine and to withdraw its forces from Ukraine. Eastern Europe.

Both the United States and the United Kingdom have warned that an invasion could happen within days.

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