The United States has claimed the possibility of Russian military action against Ukraine

According to IRNA on Saturday, the New York Times wrote: Western intelligence officials believe that the Russian president intends to take control of more areas of Ukrainian territory.

“US intelligence agencies are warning Washington allies that there is little chance of preventing Russian military action against Ukraine,” it said. For this reason, European countries are working with the United States to provide a set of military and economic pressures against Russia to prevent Moscow from doing so.

The New York Times continued: “According to senior US officials, it is not yet clear what Russia intends to do with the massive concentration of troops near the Ukrainian border, but the United States takes these moves seriously and does not see them as a show of hollow power.”

According to the report, the United States provided information in this regard yesterday (Friday) to General “Valery Zalozhny”, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, by General Mark Millie, Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The New York Times wrote: “On the other hand,” April D. Heinz, director of the US National Intelligence Service (DNI), traveled to Brussels last week to brief NATO ambassadors.

The New York Times writes that some former US officials say Putin intends to secure the areas between Ukraine’s eastern border with Crimea in this way, but some US analysts believe the Russian president is taking the coming months as a unique opportunity. Sees to conduct military operations.

The Crimean peninsula was annexed by Russia following the outbreak of internal political unrest in Ukraine in 2014 and during a referendum held by residents of the region on March 16, 2014.* 1302 **