President Barack Obama will make a statement from the White House briefing room at 4 p.m. ET, the White House said. His statement will come amid a day of significant escalation in the crisis in Ukraine, as Ukraine’s president accused Russia of sending troops across the border to fight with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s southeastern regions. Obama is also scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon with members of his National Security Council, as well as Vice President Joe Biden, on a strategy to further confront the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) in Iraq and …read more
Source: Business Insider
