Biden warns Ukraine – Russia threatens to destabilize crisis: Moscow | Conflict News

The U.S. president has said Russia will face a “catastrophe” if it invades Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden has risked further destabilizing the crisis in Russia and Ukraine his harsh warning Moscow, the Kremlin said.

On Wednesday, Biden told White House reporters: “Russia will demand responsibility if it invades – and it depends on what it does … It will be a disaster for Russia if they invade Ukraine more.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement on Thursday that “there is no way to calm the tension in Europe.”

“Besides, [they] it can help destabilize the situation, ”he told reporters in a conference call.

Washington and Western allies repeatedly threaten Russia with severe economic and political sanctions It should invade Ukraine.

Moscow denies such plans and blames the deteriorating security situation NATO and the USA.

He warned of an unspecified military-technical response if the West did not take it its security requirements seriously, claiming that compliance with the measures will calm the crisis.

Among his proposals, many of which the West sees as a trigger, is a call by the Washington-led NATO military alliance to end military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine and never to take the former Soviet Republic as a new member.

Last week’s talks aimed at alleviating the crisis were unsuccessful, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began. whistle-stop diplomatic tour European Wednesday.

Following the meeting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kiev on Wednesday, he is speaking in Berlin on Thursday with TransAtlantic Quad leaders, including Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Sergey Lavrov will meet with his Russian partner in Geneva on Friday.

Hoda Abdel-Hamid of Al Jazeera reported from Kiev that Blinken was trying to find a “common ground” with Washington’s European allies on how to respond to Moscow.

“Ukraine has made it clear that everyone must unite if there is to be any deterrence against Russia,” he said.

“But Europe has no desire to participate beyond a certain point in this regard, and certainly the ground boots, whether NATO or US, are not in doubt at this time.”

In a meeting with Zelenskyy on Wednesday, Blinken warned that Ukraine was facing an “unprecedented threat” that Russia was ready to attack “in a very short time.”

In 2014, Russia seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine and backed the separatist forces that took control of much of the eastern part of the country, a territory that continues to hold.