BIDEN SAYS ANY RUSSIAN TROOP ENTRY INTO UKRAINE IS ‘AN INVASION’
U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday any movement of Russian troops across the Ukrainian border will be treated as “an invasion.”
Biden clarified confusion over earlier comments that a “minor incursion” by Russia could invite a lesser response.
He added that he had been “absolutely clear” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that any Russian aggression will be met with a “severe and coordinated economic response.
Biden said Moscow would not necessarily mount a standard invasion and that “we have to be ready.”
Russia has a long history of using paramilitary tactics, so-called gray-zone attacks, and covert actions by Russian soldiers not in uniform, Biden said.