Riga: On Dec 1, the United States cautioned Russia to draw back its troops from the Ukrainian border and warned that a Russian incursion would prompt sanctions that would blow Moscow harder than any assigned until now. “We don’t know whether President (Vladimir) Putin has decided to invade. We do know that he is putting in place the capacity to do so in on short order should he so decide,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expounded.
