A top Western security official warned on Thursday that Russia has enough troops on its border with Ukraine to launch an attack "with very little or no warning," using false claims of aggression as a pretext to invade the former Soviet Republic.
"That is what makes the situation so dangerous," said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. "So we know about the capabilities, but of course we don't know with certainty about their intentions."
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, addressing reporters from the same NATO meetings in Brussels, said that Russia was sharpening its preparations in the Black Sea and "even stocking up their blood supply."
