White House stops using ‘imminent’ to describe Russian threat

The Biden administration is no longer using the word “imminent” to describe a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, the White House announced on Wednesday — backing away from an assessment U.S. officials had repeatedly deployed in recent days before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated frustration with the term.

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