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Blinken to deliver remarks on 'Russian threat to peace and security' at U.N. Security Council

Blinken's remarks comes as the United States has seen no deescalation of troops at the Ukranian border.

By MACKENZIE WILKES

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will deliver remarks on Thursday on Russia’s growing threat of conflict at the Ukrainian border at the United Nations Security Council, an address that comes amid mounting rhetoric from U.S. officials that Moscow could launch an invasion at any moment.

Russia could use the Security Council meeting to lay out its case for an invasion of Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official told reporters on a conference call Thursday morning. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters on that same conference call that there is evidence that “Russia is moving toward an imminent invasion.”

Greenfield said that Russia is making false claims of unmarked graves of civilians killed by Ukrainian forces, which Russia could use as a false pretext to attack Ukraine.

Blinken said Wednesday that U.S. has not seen any “meaningful pullback” of Russian troops at the Ukrainian border — echoing similar remarks from NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg — despite claims from the Kremlin that it had pulled back some troops.

“We continue to see forces, especially forces that would be in the vanguard of any renewed aggression against Ukraine, continuing to be at the border to mass at the border,” Blinken said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” yesterday.