The US president has sown doubt over the West’s response, saying a 'minor incursion’ could carry a lower cost
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: SPUTNIK/PAVEL BEDNYAKOV/POOL VIA REUTERSUS President Joe Biden predicted on Wednesday that Russia will make a move on Ukraine, saying Russia would pay dearly for a full-scale invasion but suggesting there could be a lower cost for a “minor incursion”.
Shortly after the nearly two-hour news conference ended, the White House stressed any Russian military move into Ukraine would elicit a tough response. The US state department has cleared Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to send US-made missiles and other weapons to Ukraine, three sources familiar with the decision said.
Biden and his team have prepared a broad set of sanctions and other economic penalties to impose on Russia in the event of an invasion and the US president said Russian companies could lose the ability to use the US dollar. Biden said Putin had asked him for guarantees on two issues: that Ukraine would never join Nato and that “strategic” or nuclear weapons never be stationed on Ukrainian soil.
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