Paragraph 1
A top US general has warned of "horrific"
of armed conflict in Ukraine. The general said any Russian
would result in many deaths. He said: "An
will not be cost-free in terms of
." He told reporters that Russia's 100,000
on Ukraine's border was very
. He said: "This is larger in scale and scope...than anything we have seen in
memory, and I think you'd have to go back
a while into the Cold War days to see something of this
." Russia says it has no plans to invade. It says US
for Ukraine is the biggest threat.
