US intelligence services informed Biden that the Kremlin had ordered the invasion of Ukraine

The United States intelligence services collected information last week that the Kremlin had already ordered the invasion of Ukraine, according to sources from the Joe Biden Administration quoted this Sunday by

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This data is what led the president to indicate on Friday, for the first time, that he considered that Vladimir Putin had already "made the decision" to attack the former Soviet republic.

Washington has chosen in this crisis to spread all the plans that, according to its intelligence services, Moscow has been hatching around Ukraine, in order to cut off its path and its ability to surprise.

For Biden, the latest movements by the Kremlin, such as the reinforcement of troops, the military maneuvers and the tension in the separatist region of Donbas reaffirm the solidity of the information obtained so far, including that referring to a false attack that Russia would use as a pretext to invade Ukraine.

The news about Putin's alleged order last week came after another tense day.

Biden met the National Security Council at the White House to address the crisis and decided at the last minute to cancel the planned trip to Wilmington (Delaware), his city, on the occasion of the Presidents' Day holiday, which is celebrated this Monday. .

The American leader spoke for about 20 minutes with Frenchman Emmanuel Macron after the latter's conversation with Vladimir Putin.

According to the Elysee, Macron managed to extract from Putin a commitment to try to agree on a ceasefire on the line of contact in eastern Ukraine.

In addition, this Monday representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will meet.

The allies are speeding up the diplomatic route to try to avoid a war that, in their opinion, Putin is more willing to start.

In the morning, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed that all actions taken by Moscow suggest imminent aggression against Ukraine.

"Everything we are seeing indicates that this is very serious, that we are on the verge of an invasion," he said in an interview on CNN.

The head of US diplomacy mentioned the tensions in Donbas and recalled the plan attributed to the Kremlin to fabricate a "fake attack" against Russia in order to justify a new military intervention in the former Soviet republic.

He also cited the military exercises that Moscow has launched in Belarus, which have mobilized, he says, up to 30,000 soldiers and who were supposed to return to Russia this weekend, but will remain in the allied country.

“All of this together tells us that the script we submitted is still moving forward,” added Blinken.

As the president, Joe Biden, pointed out last Friday, Blinken also pointed out this Sunday that he believes that Putin "has already made the decision" to invade Ukraine, but insisted that Biden is willing to talk to the Russian leader to avoid it until the last moment.

Aggression seems increasingly likely to the despair of Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who has openly called on his Western allies not to wait any longer and adopt now a package of sanctions against Russia, which is responsible, according to the allies, for several cyberattacks and attempts to destabilize the government in Kiev.

Asked about this on the CBS network, Blinken responded this Sunday that the planned sanctions – and highly publicized by Washington – seek to “dissuade” Russia from possible aggression and that “once they are activated, that deterrent power is lost.”

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