US President Joe Biden will speak with European leaders on Friday as Washington intensifies its diplomatic efforts in the face of what it calls an increasingly likely Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Countries in Eastern Europe are making preparations for potentially hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine if the crisis with Russia escalates, with some Polish towns already listing places available and Romania considering refugee camps.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lands in Kyiv on Monday before visiting Moscow to try to head off a "very critical" threat of a Russian invasion that would spark the worst crisis in Europe since the Cold War.