Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin wouldn't take his call as combat-ready Russian troops appear poised to invade.
The US intelligence assessment comes as foreign leaders are warning about an imminent attack and say that Russian troops are moving into the pro-Moscow region of eastern Ukraine. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said at a media briefing in Australia, which occurred Tuesday evening eastern time, that"Russia is at peak readiness to now complete a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"Our assessment is that President Putin did not expect the United States to have the level of information that we have, did not expect us to put out this amount of information that we have put out, did not expect the global community to be as unified, including in the how unified the global community was in putting out the sanctions yesterday," she said.
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