Rift between UK-US and allies on imminence of Russia Ukraine invasion

We see no immediate likelihood of Russian military action."And in an apparent attempt to reassure Ukraine's partners, President Volodymyr Zelensky told European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday that he was "grateful" to EU leaders "whose diplomats remain in our country and support us in our work."The split between the US and UK and their allies "points to a gap in assessments of Russia's likely courses of action," Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow on the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, told Insider."There is a history of the US trying to convince its European partners that the threat is imminent, based on the sources and intelligence it has, and they apparently do not," he said."It may be that after several weeks of this being repeated, Russia's partners in Europe, particularly the major members of the EU are placing less credence on what they are being told by Washington," Giles added.In a Monday interview with BBC Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said the US and UK withdrawals were contributing to panic and playing into President Vladimir Putin's hands.