Five days ago Politico reported that February 16 was Ukraine Invasion Day in Russia.

National security adviser JAKE SULLIVAN said a full Russian invasion of Ukraine could come before the end of the Beijing Olympics on Feb. 20, even as President JOE BIDEN today told his counterparts about Moscow’s forces possibly launching an incursion in five days.

“Any American in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible, and in any event in the next 24 to 48 hours,” he said from the White House podium. “We don’t know what’s going to happen, but the risk is now high enough, and the threat is now immediate enough, that this is what prudence demands.”
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NatSec Daily was told by a person familiar that President JOE BIDEN told Western leaders about the Feb. 16 date on an hourlong call today.

Russia will start a physical assault on Ukraine as soon as Feb. 16, multiple U.S. officials confirmed to POLITICO, and Washington communicated to allies that it could be preceded by a barrage of missile strikes and cyberattacks. One person said the leaders’ call indicated that cyberattacks are “imminent” and another said the intelligence is “specific and alarming.” Sullivan mentioned that any attack on Ukraine could begin with “aerial bombing and missile attacks.”

Europeans, however, signaled to us that they have a different picture.
A U.K. official said that “we have a different interpretation” of the Feb. 16 intelligence.

There's just one problem: Russia slept in today.

Maybe someone should have sent Putin a Zoom meeting invite.

"I’d like to request US and British disinformation: Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Sun media outlets to publish the schedule for our upcoming invasions for the year. I’d like to plan my vacation," the Russian diplomat said on her Telegram channel Wednesday.

Fresh from scaring Brits with disinformation about a Russian invasion of Ukraine, overnight, The Sun is now telling its readers that Putin has his eyes on a "Hitler-style" raid on Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. pic.twitter.com/7ZvkiaGQd4

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) February 16, 2022

Update: China says calm the f*ck down

China accused the United States of "playing up the threat of warfare and creating tension", as Washington warned that Russian troops were still massed near Ukraine’s border. "Such persistent hyping up and disinformation by some Western countries will create turbulence and uncertainty to the world full of challenges, and intensify distress and division," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters at a regular briefing in Beijing on Wednesday.
"We hope relevant parties will stop such disinformation campaigns and do more to benefit peace, mutual trust and cooperation," he added.

This is Britain's *best selling* newspaper making a very specific forecast. pic.twitter.com/qTQwI6fp77

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) February 15, 2022

Ukraine still says no invasion coming.

Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Wednesday the latest threat assessments did not contain "anything unexpected" and were consistent with earlier views. In a televised statement he said Ukrainian armed forces were keeping up a nationwide military drill, one of which would be attended by the military attaché of Belarus.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has called on Western media outlets to publish a full list of dates on which Russia will invade Ukraine for the year ahead, so Russian diplomats can schedule their vacations accordingly.

This is not satire. They did this

— Murad Gazdiev (@MuradGazdiev) February 16, 2022

The Kremlin officially tweets: “We advise the Ukrainians to set their alarms so that they do not miss our invasion of Ukraine.”pic.twitter.com/GmemKEQUjv

— AIM (@AbdullaAlmazied) February 16, 2022