Biden is certain Putin will invade Ukraine in a matter of days

Biden is certain Putin will invade Ukraine in a matter of days, while civilians are were escorted out. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to take over Ukraine within days. 

On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden declared after separatists who Moscow backed instructed civilians to leave the breakaway areas on buses that the West believes could be an excuse to launch an attack.

One of the tensest post-Cold War conflicts, Russia wants to stop Kyiv from joining NATO and is accusing the West of being a hysterical nation, saying there is no intention to attack.

 At the same time, allies like the United States and allies are insistent on the continued military build-up.

Alarm sirens blared across Donetsk and Luhansk on Friday after rebel leaders announced the relocation from the cities of several hundred thousand people into Russia.

“We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days,” Biden informed media in the White House, adding that Kyiv could be an attack target.

“As of this moment, I am convinced that he has made the decision.”

On Friday night, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said Russian security forces have planted explosives in the social infrastructure in Donetsk and urged residents to remain at home. 

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It was reported that the Russian Federal Security Service did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.

Reporting from correspondents on the ground, Russian news agencies later informed that two explosions struck Luhansk, one of the cities of Ukraine’s separatist, the People’s Republic of Luhansk, and a part of a gas pipeline within the area caught on fire.

Separatist leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk released video declarations. They announced evacuations and accused Ukraine of preparing attacks on the two regions shortly – a claim that Kyiv declared false.

However, one video appears to be created on Wednesday, before the latest flare-up of shelling broke out according to metadata included in the video. This raised concerns of Western analysts, but it could be edited.

In response to questions about the evacuations, White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated they’re the “good example” of what Washington has to be afraid of.

“We have … long predicted for all of you that the Russians would take part in pretexts or steps that would lay a predicate for either war or to create confusion or spread misinformation on the ground,” she informed reporters.

After the evacuation announcement, an SUV exploded in front of an office building for rebels in Donetsk. 

Reuters journalists saw the car covered in shrapnel and an object destroyed in the blast. Russian media claimed it was an official of the separatist group.

Many families living in the Russian-speaking region have received citizenship from Moscow. In a matter of hours, some families were getting on buses at the evacuated point located in Donetsk, in which authorities claimed 700,000 people were expected to leave.

Irina Lysanova, 22, told me she packed for a trip with her pensioner mother. “Mama is a panicker,” she told reporters. She said her father, Konstantin, who is 62, was not planning to go. “This is my motherland,” he declared.

The evacuation began following the outbreak of what was described by sources as the strongest artillery fire in decades on Friday.

Ukraine is the single most devastating loss to Russia of the former republics under its control before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Russian-backed rebels captured a vast area in eastern Ukraine during 2014 when Moscow has annexed Ukrainian’s Crimea region.

Kyiv states that more than 14,000 have died since the war in the east.

As the Kremlin displays its military capability on multiple different fronts, Putin had the task of overseeing exercises for its nuclear strategic missile forces on Saturday.