Russia decided the date of invasion?

There have been reports in the international media that Russia will launch an attack on Ukraine on the 16th of this month (Wednesday). Earlier, there was a prediction that Russia could invade Ukraine after Winter Olympics that end on February 20. The United States of America predicts that Russia may invade Ukraine at any moment. US President Joe Biden has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will pay a heavy price if he launches an attack on Ukraine. Reportedly, two leaders spend more than an hour over the phone and discussed the situation.  If the Russian invasion of Ukraine takes the form of war, the lives of many people will become miserable.

The United States has announced it will spend another 3,000 troops to Poland, a neighbor of Ukraine. They said they would train the Ukrainian army. The United States and its allies have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine. Russia has said it has no plans to attack Ukraine, and that the Western media is spreading propaganda. It seems Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides. Russian troops gathered in Crimea (the nation which was grabbed by Russia in February 2014) to the south, on the Russian side of the two countries' border, and in Belarus to the north. Russia did some war exercises for 10 days along with Belarus near the Ukraine border.

In recent elections, people in Ukraine have clearly indicated that they see their future in Europe. Russian President Putin has not digested that Ukraine moving close with Europe and NATO. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, a part of Ukraine, and it is keen not to let the country become more aligned with Western institutions, chiefly NATO and the European Union. People welcomed the annexation of Crimea when Russia did eight years back. But the situation has changed now. But people in Russia can’t digest Putin’s bureaucracy and dissidence increased among the people. On the other side, people in Ukraine dared to challenge Russian aggressiveness. Not only two nations’ entire world would lose if the war takes place between two nations.