Ukraine’s Russian-backed breakaway eastern territories have ordered military mobilisations amid a deadly escalation in fighting.
Men of fighting age in the self-declared people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk are being put on stand-by.
US President Joe Biden says he is convinced Russia will invade Ukraine, an allegation Moscow denies.
Western nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in the eastern regions as a pretext to invade.
