A10 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
TODAY
TUESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
39°
LOW
14°
Cloudy and chilly with
snow showers
Cloudy and cold with a
snow shower around
23°
-3°
25°
6°
Very cold; a little morning
snow
Mostly sunny and very cold
ALMANAC
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
40°
19°
Partly sunny and not as
cold
SATURDAY
40°
9°
Abundant sunshine and not
as cold
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
EAST: Cloudy and
chilly today with snow
showers. Mostly
cloudy tonight. A
couple of snow show-
ers tomorrow.
CENTRAL: Today:
snow, accumulating
1-3 inches in the north,
with little or no accu-
mulation in the south
and central parts.
WEST: Occasional
rain and drizzle today;
however, a couple of
rain or snow showers
in the south.
TEMPERATURE
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
Trace
Record
1.20" in 1927
Month to date (normal)
Trace (0.74")
Year to date (normal)
0.84" (2.15")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.90"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Tue.
Sun
6:56am/5:43pm 6:54am/5:44pm
Moon
11:39pm/9:26am
none/9:52am
Mercury 5:52am/3:24pm 5:52am/3:26pm
Venus
4:28am/2:18pm 4:27am/2:17pm
Mars
5:00am/1:58pm 4:59am/1:57pm
Jupiter
7:21am/6:26pm 7:18am/6:23pm
Saturn
6:23am/4:19pm 6:20am/4:16pm
Uranus 9:35am/11:41pm 9:31am/11:37pm
Last
New
First
Full
Feb 23
Mar 2
Mar 10
Mar 17
Tonight's sky: Just above the W-shaped
constellation Cassiopeia, toward neighboring
Perseus, look for the Double Cluster.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
1
1
1
0
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
www.bendbulletin.com/webcams
I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Cloudy and cold today
with a couple of snow showers.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Chilly today with
snow, accumulating 1-3 inches.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Periods of snow today,
accumulating 3-6 inches.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Cloudy and chilly
today and tonight with snow showers.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Cold today with
periods of snow, accumulating 2-4 inches. A
little snow at times tonight.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Cloudy and cold
with a little snow and flurries today.
SKI REPORT
Astoria
46/29
Seaside
46/27
Cannon Beach
46/27
0s
10s
Hood
River
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
T-storms
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
75/45/0.00
Akron
48/14/0.00
Albany
33/9/Tr
Albuquerque
62/30/0.00
Anchorage
30/26/0.00
Atlanta
61/35/0.00
Atlantic City
36/21/0.00
Austin
71/32/0.00
Baltimore
43/16/0.00
Billings
45/35/0.15
Birmingham
67/35/0.00
Bismarck
18/18/0.02
Boise
50/31/0.00
Boston
33/16/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 34/17/0.00
Buffalo
46/18/Tr
Burlington, VT
29/6/Tr
Caribou, ME
15/3/0.02
Charleston, SC 63/38/0.00
Charlotte
55/25/0.00
Chattanooga
61/27/0.00
Cheyenne
56/38/0.00
Chicago
47/16/0.00
Cincinnati
57/20/0.00
Cleveland
49/12/0.00
Colorado Springs 65/38/0.00
Columbia, MO
64/30/0.00
Columbia, SC
61/35/0.00
Columbus, GA
67/32/0.00
Columbus, OH
53/18/0.00
Concord, NH
31/10/Tr
Corpus Christi
72/50/0.02
Dallas
68/39/0.00
Dayton
55/18/0.00
Denver
63/33/0.00
Des Moines
63/25/0.00
Detroit
45/12/0.00
Duluth
32/11/Tr
El Paso
73/33/0.00
Fairbanks
2/-14/0.00
Fargo
14/10/Tr
Flagstaff
52/19/0.00
Grand Rapids
48/12/0.00
Green Bay
50/15/0.00
Greensboro
52/24/0.00
Harrisburg
42/17/0.00
Hartford, CT
34/14/0.00
Helena
40/36/0.07
Honolulu
83/68/Tr
Houston
66/44/0.00
Huntsville
63/30/0.00
Indianapolis
56/19/0.00
Jackson, MS
69/31/0.00
Jacksonville
70/36/0.00
Today
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
81/53/c
73/24/s
55/46/pc
60/37/r
48/33/c
51/48/r
58/34/pc
57/32/c
35/34/sn
37/23/c
64/55/c
75/64/c
49/45/s
54/51/r
82/67/c
83/49/pc
60/44/pc
60/59/r
5/-8/sn
-2/-17/c
61/57/sh
75/63/c
-3/-13/sn -3/-21/sn
41/25/sf
35/17/c
51/34/pc
50/49/c
47/35/s
49/48/r
47/36/pc
56/37/r
41/26/c
45/41/r
33/3/c
16/16/sn
72/58/pc 76/61/pc
68/55/pc
71/61/c
65/55/pc 70/60/sh
35/-9/sn
4/-9/sn
45/39/c
45/16/r
62/54/pc
62/33/r
54/46/pc
60/31/r
55/9/c
20/-1/sn
67/52/pc 56/14/sh
72/56/pc
78/61/c
66/54/sh
78/61/c
58/50/pc
61/36/r
50/27/pc
45/41/r
81/67/c
88/66/pc
81/63/c
74/31/c
58/52/pc
61/33/r
49/0/sn
8/-1/sn
53/22/c
25/2/sn
43/38/c
53/28/r
7/0/sn
7/-4/sn
68/42/pc
70/44/s
20/19/sn
25/8/sn
1/-7/sn
-5/-14/sn
39/26/pc 34/25/sf
41/35/c
43/23/r
22/15/sn
19/8/sn
65/53/pc
68/60/c
61/38/s
60/55/r
52/30/s
50/49/r
10/0/sn
8/-7/c
83/70/pc 82/69/pc
79/67/c
81/64/t
62/55/sh 69/53/sh
57/53/c
60/25/r
71/65/t
80/64/t
76/57/pc 80/57/pc
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
47/40/r
66/51/c
79/62/pc
72/46/pc
85/71/c
36/13/s
65/55/pc
44/37/r
67/48/r
49/36/r
78/65/s
79/54/s
71/54/pc
-3/-15/sf
84/74/s
50/44/pc
49/37/pc
44/37/sh
78/62/t
52/50/r
57/49/pc
60/47/pc
83/60/s
75/67/c
67/48/s
52/39/sh
65/33/pc
92/79/c
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfield, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
38/34/Tr
57/27/0.00
48/13/0.00
73/44/0.00
58/22/0.00
67/32/0.00
68/33/0.00
65/49/0.00
63/24/0.00
51/16/0.00
67/37/0.00
79/70/0.21
53/18/0.00
44/21/0.00
64/25/0.00
71/48/0.00
36/21/0.00
37/19/0.00
42/28/0.00
69/37/0.00
66/27/0.00
79/51/0.00
81/55/0.00
50/16/0.00
40/21/0.00
80/51/0.00
48/11/0.00
28/11/0.00
35/16/0.00
54/26/0.00
53/34/0.00
60/29/0.00
48/21/0.00
45/13/Tr
61/43/0.00
66/29/0.00
57/36/0.00
74/41/0.00
63/50/0.00
57/47/0.00
63/42/0.00
56/25/0.00
66/36/0.00
48/38/0.11
57/33/0.00
43/31/Tr
65/35/0.00
82/54/0.00
78/44/0.00
70/44/0.00
43/23/0.00
63/36/0.00
52/26/0.00
79/46/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
27/16/pc
68/28/c
43/36/c
66/42/pc
63/54/pc
49/11/c
68/65/t
60/48/c
66/57/pc
35/20/i
65/62/t
79/71/pc
39/31/c
21/8/sn
65/57/pc
75/67/sh
52/41/s
53/37/s
63/51/pc
75/35/c
50/13/c
81/61/s
69/49/pc
54/48/c
58/43/s
69/51/pc
59/44/pc
48/31/pc
51/33/s
68/56/pc
5/-11/sn
40/24/sf
66/52/pc
46/33/c
59/36/s
65/58/pc
37/24/sf
82/64/c
60/52/c
55/45/s
58/43/s
52/29/pc
75/57/pc
43/27/c
23/2/sn
27/8/sf
70/52/pc
83/65/s
67/43/pc
75/43/c
63/49/pc
72/20/pc
40/19/sf
72/46/s
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
27/24/sn
32/7/c
47/22/r
59/41/pc
64/37/r
17/-3/c
70/38/t
58/38/c
67/37/r
25/7/sn
73/40/t
81/72/pc
34/13/sn
11/-2/sn
70/40/t
80/68/t
56/52/r
56/52/r
67/59/c
46/14/pc
17/-3/sn
82/63/s
65/49/c
54/13/r
60/55/r
66/51/pc
60/44/r
42/42/c
52/50/c
72/62/c
-3/-21/sf
36/18/sf
66/60/c
53/39/r
55/33/c
61/20/r
38/16/sf
87/59/pc
62/49/sh
52/42/sh
54/34/sh
50/22/pc
79/59/pc
38/22/s
4/-10/sn
21/6/s
57/15/sh
85/66/s
69/44/s
53/14/pc
63/60/r
33/6/c
29/11/s
69/47/s
79/60/0.00
78/49/0.00
27/0/0.01
34/33/0.18
86/63/0.00
79/72/0.02
73/55/0.00
46/37/0.05
30/12/0.12
34/-2/0.03
55/46/0.06
84/74/0.06
61/52/0.00
81/58/0.00
84/68/0.03
30/28/0.29
32/11/0.00
41/25/0.00
89/79/0.13
32/23/0.00
82/66/0.00
52/50/0.63
67/55/0.00
50/41/0.14
43/12/0.00
46/39/0.29
54/30/0.00
41/34/0.15
86/58/pc
78/52/s
33/13/c
36/34/c
85/61/pc
79/69/s
78/54/pc
45/32/sf
35/21/sn
31/18/c
51/41/sh
86/76/t
60/42/t
81/51/c
85/64/t
31/25/sn
39/14/sf
47/36/pc
89/77/c
35/24/sn
83/71/t
59/57/sh
65/54/pc
47/35/s
39/33/pc
42/23/pc
49/39/c
48/36/c
88/66/s
78/54/s
34/30/i
39/34/sn
80/61/t
80/70/s
80/58/pc
46/29/pc
33/27/c
33/28/sn
53/38/c
84/75/t
61/36/s
79/51/s
85/63/pc
31/25/sn
33/12/pc
48/37/c
89/76/pc
28/17/c
74/71/r
62/57/r
68/58/pc
48/34/s
44/28/r
37/22/s
48/37/sh
41/30/sn
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 85°
at Naples, FL
National low: -14°
at Antero Reservoir, CO
Precipitation: 1.12"
at Stampede Pass, WA
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
0
56-56
Hoodoo Ski Area
0
57-57
Mt. Ashland
0
33-36
Mt. Bachelor
0
66-66
Mt. Hood Meadows
4
87-101
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
0
40-64
Timberline Lodge
0
106-106
Willamette Pass
0
60-60
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
41-66
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
68-130
Palisades Tahoe, CA
0
0-94
Park City Mountain, UT
0
40-58
Sun Valley, ID
0
50-80
Chance for morning snow
showers
NATIONAL
NATIONAL WEATHER
-0s
More clouds than sun
47°
17°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
49/41/0.33 46/29/r
42/24/s
La Grande
41/35/0.02 35/15/sf 21/3/sf
Portland
51/41/0.17 45/27/r
40/21/s
Baker City
39/25/Tr
33/16/sf 21/3/pc
La Pine
37/27/0.01 37/12/sf 24/0/pc
Prineville
43/30/0.00 42/14/sf 24/0/s
Brookings
50/41/0.00 46/36/sh 49/33/s
Medford
51/30/0.01 44/28/sh 46/14/pc
Redmond
45/24/Tr
40/15/sf 23/-3/s
Burns
41/23/0.02 36/18/sf 29/6/sn
Newport
46/41/0.79 43/29/r
41/24/s
Roseburg
49/42/0.10 41/32/c 41/19/c
Eugene
50/41/0.03 43/28/r
41/16/s
North Bend
49/43/0.13 46/33/r
46/23/s
Salem
51/42/0.02 45/25/r
40/17/s
Klamath Falls
43/23/Tr
37/17/sf 36/6/sn
Ontario
50/28/Tr
44/25/sf 37/16/pc
Sisters
42/33/0.00 40/11/sn 22/-3/s
Lakeview
42/30/0.00 35/18/sf 30/5/sn
Pendleton
49/39/0.05 40/17/sf 28/9/s
The Dalles
55/44/0.01 49/22/sh 39/17/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
SUNDAY
48°
16°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Umatilla
46/21
Rufus
Hermiston
46/19
45/20
49/22
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
45/19
45/26 45/27
34/14
Wasco
33/9 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
31/8
46/19
40/17
Sandy
49/22
McMinnville
46/23
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
42/22
Maupin
Government
45/26
35/15
30/8
Camp
46/17 Condon 38/12
Union
Lincoln City
39/11
33/9
37/17
Salem
44/28
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
45/25
Madras
42/11
Albany
27/7
Newport
Baker City
43/18
43/17
Mitchell
43/29
44/22
33/16
Camp Sherman
39/16
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
40/11
40/15
43/23
Day
Prineville
42/30
31/9
Ontario
Sisters
42/14
Paulina
34/15
44/25
Florence
Eugene 40/11
Bend Brothers 37/13
Vale
45/30
43/28
39/14
35/15
Sunriver
43/24
Nyssa
37/11
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
46/25
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
37/12
36/16
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
40/23
38/18
40/25
Fort
Rock
44/31
36/18
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
37/17
35/17
High: 55°
35/14
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at The Dalles
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
46/34
41/32
36/14
33/18
Low: 23°
Marsh
Lake
34/22
Port Orford
34/10
37/14
at Crater Lake
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
47/38
Pass
38/19
Chiloquin
36/18
45/30
Rome
Medford
36/14
Gold Beach
44/28
40/21
45/38
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
37/22
42/24
37/17
35/19
46/36
35/18
Yesterday Normal
Record
43°
47° 70° in 1977
34°
24°
-2° in 2006
High
Low
WEDNESDAY
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
52/37/1.85
64/45/0.00
75/65/0.00
72/59/0.00
91/81/0.00
38/15/0.00
64/55/0.00
46/35/0.41
68/50/0.00
50/27/0.01
72/70/0.40
75/60/0.00
66/48/0.00
3/1/0.40
82/73/0.00
52/43/1.38
50/39/0.50
52/34/0.22
77/60/0.09
50/49/1.52
54/37/0.00
56/42/0.00
81/58/0.00
75/65/0.00
66/46/0.00
54/45/0.20
63/28/0.00
92/80/0.01
50/40/r
64/47/t
80/63/r
75/50/pc
86/70/pc
35/12/s
67/57/pc
44/39/c
67/49/r
50/31/pc
77/66/pc
76/56/s
74/58/pc
-2/-16/pc
84/74/pc
50/39/r
49/38/r
47/36/c
80/61/t
54/50/r
60/48/pc
63/53/pc
80/58/t
77/67/c
71/49/s
56/36/sh
68/37/s
90/78/c
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
UKRAINE CRISIS
U.S. agrees to meet as Russia rescinds troop vow
BY LORI HINNANT, JIM HEINTZ
AND ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Sunday
rescinded earlier pledges to pull tens
of thousands of its troops back from
Ukraine’s northern border, a move
that U.S. leaders said put Russia an-
other step closer to what they said was
the planned invasion of Ukraine. Resi-
dents of Ukraine’s capital filled a gold-
domed cathedral to pray for peace.
Russia’s action extends what it said
were military exercises, originally set to
end Sunday, that brought an estimated
30,000 Russian forces to Belarus,
Ukraine’s neighbor to the north. They
are among at least 150,000 Russian
troops now deployed outside Ukraine’s
borders, along with tanks, warplanes,
artillery and other war materiel.
The continued deployment of
the Russian forces in Belarus raised
concern that Russia could send
those troops to sweep down on the
Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, a city of about
3 million people less than a three-
hour drive away.
In what appeared to be a last-ditch
diplomatic gambit brokered with the
aid of French President Emmanuel
Macron, the White House said U.S.
President Joe Biden has agreed “in
principle” to a meeting with Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin as long as he
holds off on launching an assault that
U.S. officials warn appears increas-
ingly more likely.
White House press secretary Jen
Psaki said the administration has
been clear that “we are committed to
pursuing diplomacy until the moment
an invasion begins.” U.S. Secretary
of State Antony Blinken and Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are set
to meet on Thursday in Europe — as
long as Russia does not send its troops
into Ukraine beforehand.
“We are always ready for diplomacy.
We are also ready to impose swift and
severe consequences should Russia in-
stead choose war,” Psaki said in state-
ment. “And currently, Russia appears
to be continuing preparations for a full-
scale assault on Ukraine very soon.”
‘We all love life’
In Kyiv, life outwardly continued
as usual for many on a mild winter
Sunday, with brunches and church
services, ahead of what Biden said
late last week was an already decid-
ed-upon Russian attack.
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Demonstrators holding a huge Ukrainian flag march along the street in Odessa, Ukraine, on Sunday. Thousands of people marked
the date on which, eight years ago, more than a hundred people were killed during Ukraine’s Maidan revolution.
preparations for an attack. The official
spoke on the condition of anonymity
to describe the sensitive intelligence.
The U.S. and many European coun-
tries have charged for weeks that Putin
has built up the forces he needs to in-
vade Ukraine — a westward-looking
democracy that has sought to move
out of Russia’s orbit — and is now try-
ing to create pretexts to invade.
Western nations have threatened
massive sanctions if Putin does.
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A Ukrainian serviceman leaves a command post to start his shift in eastern Ukraine on
Sunday. Russia has extended military drills amid increased fears that two days of sus-
tained shelling along the contact line between soldiers and Russia-backed separatists
in eastern Ukraine could spark an invasion.
Katerina Spanchak, who fled a re-
gion of eastern Ukraine when it was
taken over by Russian-allied separatists,
was among worshippers crowded into
the capital’s St. Michael’s monastery,
smoky with the candles burned by the
faithful, to pray that Ukraine be spared.
“We all love life, and we are all
united by our love of life,” Spanchak
said, pausing to compose herself. “We
should appreciate it every day. That’s
why I think everything will be fine.”
“Our joint prayers will help to elude
this tragedy, which is advancing,” said
another worshipper, who identified
himself only by his first name, Oleh.
A U.S. official said Sunday that
Biden’s assertion that Putin has made
the decision to roll Russian forces into
Ukraine was based on intelligence
that Russian front-line commanders
have been given orders to begin final
Why no sanctions yet?
U.S. officials on Sunday defended
their decision to hold off on their
planned financial punishments of
Russia ahead of any invasion, after
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel-
enskyy called passionately Saturday
for the West to do more.
“If you pull the trigger on that de-
terrent, well then, it doesn’t exist
anymore as a deterrent,” Pentagon
spokesman John Kirby told Fox on
Washington’s sanctions threat.
Russia held nuclear drills Saturday
as well as the conventional exercises in
Belarus, and has ongoing naval drills
off the coast in the Black Sea.
The announcement that Russia was
reversing its pledge to withdraw its
forces from Belarus came after two
days of sustained shelling along a con-
tact line between Ukraine’s soldiers
and Russian-allied separatists in east-
ern Ukraine, an area that Ukraine and
the West worry could be the flash-
point in igniting conflict.
Biden convened the National Se-
curity Council at the White House
on Russia’s military buildup around
Ukraine. White House officials re-
leased no immediate details of their
roughly two hours of discussion.
”We’re talking about the potential for
war in Europe,” Vice President Kamala
Harris said earlier Sunday at a security
conference in Munich, Germany, that
saw urgent consultations among world
leaders on the crisis. “It’s been over 70
years, and through those 70 years ...
there has been peace and security.”
Zelenskyy on Sunday appealed on
Twitter for a cease-fire. Russia has de-
nied plans to invade, but the Kremlin
did not respond to Zelenskyy’s offer
Saturday to meet with Putin.
After a call with Macron, Putin
blamed Ukraine — incorrectly, ac-
cording to observers there — for the
escalation of shelling along the con-
tact line and NATO for “pumping
modern weapons and ammunition”
into Ukraine.
Macron, a leader in European ef-
forts to broker a peaceful resolution
with Russia, also spoke separately to
Zelenskyy, to British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson and to Biden.
Blinken intentionally raised the
prospect of a Biden-Putin summit in
interviews with U.S. television net-
works Sunday, in a bid to keep diplo-
macy alive, a senior U.S. official said.
The official spoke on condition of an-
onymity to discuss U.S. reasoning.
Blinken said that Biden was “pre-
pared to meet President Putin at any
time in any format if that can help
prevent a war” and the U.S. official
said Macron had then conveyed the
offer of talks to Putin — conditioned
on Russia not invading — in his
phone calls with the Russian leader.
Tensions mounted further, however.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued
an advisory urging greater caution by
Americans in Russia overall. “Have
evacuation plans that do not rely on
U.S. government assistance,” it warned.
Immediate worries focused on east-
ern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces
have been fighting the pro-Russia
rebels since 2014 in a conflict that has
killed some 14,000 people.