PremiumRussia-Ukraine crisis LIVE: The Kremlin signaled Monday that it is ready to keep talking with the West about security grievances that led to the current crisis, offering hope that Russia might not invade Ukraine within days as Western officials increasingly fear.
Diplomatic efforts to head off what US officials have warned could be an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine entered a new round on Monday. Russia's top diplomat advised President Vladimir Putin to continue talks and Germany's chancellor met the Ukrainian president.
The United States said it will close its embassy in Ukraine and move all remaining staffers there to a city near the Polish border as invasion fears intensify. It also repeated warnings to private American citizens in Ukraine to leave immediately.
Oil retreated from the highest since 2014 as traders weighed an apparent cooling in the Ukrainian crisis and prospects for increased supply.
West Texas Intermediate fell after topping $95 a barrel on Monday. Despite U.S. warnings a Russian invasion of Ukraine may be imminent, Moscow is now calling for a diplomatic approach and denying, again, it plans an assault.
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Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi stressed on the need for a diplomatic resolution amid rising tensions in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and added that the Nation would take “appropriate steps, including possible sanctions, in response to what has actually happened, and in coordination with the G7 and international community."
Canada will donate over $7 million of lethal weapons and assorted support items to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Canadian government said in a statement on Monday.
The weapons include machine guns, pistols, carbines, 1.5 million rounds of ammunition, sniper rifles, and various related equipment," the press release said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin today in the latest in an intense diplomatic scramble to dissuade the Russian leader from attacking his ex-Soviet neighbour Ukraine. Western leaders consider the Russian troop build-up on its border with Ukraine to be the worst threat to the continent's security since the Cold War, and have prepared a crippling package of economic sanctions in response to any attack on its neighbour.
European carriers took further steps to avoid Ukraine, while airline shares sank after tension mounted through the weekend over Russia’s troop buildup at the border.
KLM stopped flying to Ukraine on Saturday after the Dutch government raised its alert to red, advising citizens to leave because security was uncertain.
The Biden Administration has warned Russia of “severe consequences" in case its forces invade Ukraine and insisted on a diplomatic solution to the issue.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on the country's people to fly flags and sing the national anthem in unison on Feb. 16, a date that some Western media say Russian could invade.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heads to Moscow on Tuesday to meet President Vladimir Putin in a high stakes mission to avert war, with Russia's largest trading partner in Europe warning of far-reaching sanctions if it attacks Ukraine.
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