President Biden meets with national security team amid Ukraine-Russia crisis

President Biden was meeting secretly with his national security team and getting standard reports on the Russia-Ukraine emergency on Monday, the White House said, as the U.S. prepares for a Russian intrusion of Ukraine.

"President Biden is meeting with his national security team at the White House today and is by and large routinely informed on improvements in regards to Russia and Ukraine," a White House official said.

The White House gave the update as news broke that Russian President Vladimir Putin would perceive two regions in Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk, as autonomous.

Monday was a government occasion, President's Day, and Biden had nothing on his public timetable. Biden went through the end of the week meeting with his public safety group about Russia's rising animosity toward Ukraine.

Biden told journalists on Friday that he accepted Putin had made his brain up to attack Ukraine. The U.S. has cautioned that an attack could occur all of a sudden, given the significant Russian military development of upwards of 190,000 soldiers in and around Ukraine.

The Kremlin said Monday that Putin would sign a declaration perceiving Luhansk and Donetsk, which are in eastern Ukraine's Donbas area and constrained by Russian-supported separatists, as autonomous. Specialists accept that the move is probably going to set off struggle.

The U.S. has compromised Moscow with unforgiving global authorizations assuming that it attacks Ukraine. Biden organization authorities have offered not many particulars about an authorizations bundle, however the actions are relied upon to target Russian banks and state-possessed organizations as well as Kremlin-associated people.

In a last-ditch bid to deflect struggle, the White House said Sunday that Biden concurred "on a basic level" to meet with Putin following a commitment between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian partner inasmuch as Russia doesn't attack Ukraine.

In any case, it's hazy whether such a gathering will happen as signs highlighted a heightening of the emergency on Monday.