Abrupt Situation Room meeting
On Thursday evening, Biden's aides attended an abruptly scheduled meeting in the basement Situation Room that was called in the context of Russia's escalating military buildup. It had not been organized in advance, a source familiar with the meeting said. Biden joined for part of the meeting.
Amid heightened tensions with Russia, an Air Moldova plane drew an 80-mile wide version of the word using its flight path on Thursday afternoon, data courtesy of Flightradar24.com showed.