
President Joe Biden has ramped up his rhetoric to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine as Russia sends troops along its neighbour’s border.
Mr Biden initially said: “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and what to not do, etcetera,” before he later clarified that “if any, any assembled Russian units move across the Ukrainian border, that is an invasion,” which would be met with “severe economic response”.