The Latest Breaking News from Eastern Europe

Ukraine news from February 3: The US claims Moscow is planning to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday amid frantic diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over Ukraine. Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed his offer to host a Ukraine-Russia crisis summit during a visit to Kyiv.

The president had previously said troop deployments to Eastern Europe would only occur if Russia invaded Ukraine.

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The United States will send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania to shield Eastern Europe from a potential spillover from the crisis over the massing of Russian troops near Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Ukraine news from February 2: Washington to move 3,000 soldiers to Poland, Romania and Germany as tensions simmer.

President Joe Biden is deploying U.S. troops to Europe to shore up NATO as Russia amasses troops on the Ukrainian border.

Thousands of additional U.S. and allied soldiers on the ground in Eastern Europe may not alter Russia’s military calculus on Ukraine. But the commitment is a boon to NATO member states near Russia’s border.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the US and its allies have ignored Russia’s top security demands. In his first comments on the standoff with the West over Ukraine in more than a month, Putin said the Kremlin is still studying the US and NATO's response to the Russian…