US President Joe Biden this week put the world on notice that a Russian attack could happen very soon... and western countries have been evacuating their embassy staff and warning citizens to get out...

But the Ukraine president President Volodymyr Zelensky has been giving a very different message -

he’s been urging people to stay calm.

So what is happening in Ukraine... Channel Seven reporter Sarah Greenhalgh is in the city of Lviv in far western Ukraine. How likely is war between Russia and Ukraine…?

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