CNN Reports Russia’s Putin Agrees to Trilateral Talks; U.S. Intelligence says Russian Commanders Ordered to Invade Ukraine

BERLIN, GERMANY – OCTOBER 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting to discuss the Ukrainian peace process at the German federal Chancellery on October 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany, known as the Normandy Four, met in Berlin to discuss implementation of the peace plan known as the Minsk Protocol, a roadmap for resolving the conflict in Ukraine after Russian forces invaded in 2014 and annexed the peninsula of Crimea. The United States has threatened renewed sanctions on Russia if the country did not either implement the plan in the coming months or arrive at a plan on how to do so. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

(CNN/CBS/Associated Press; WBAP/KLIF) – CBS News reports American intelligence indicates Russian commanders have been given the order to invade Ukraine, and CNN reports Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has agreed to trilateral talks with French President Macron.

If more talks in hopes of dissuading Putin from ordering an estimated 190-thousand troops on Ukraine’s border to proceed occur, reports indicate those talks could happen within hours.

Russia has amassed an estimated 190-thousand troops on the borders of Ukraine, citing a demand from Western nations that bar the former Soviet republic of Ukraine from joining NATO. NATO has refused to agree to admit Ukraine should it request to join, resulting in the political standoff.

Saturday, Russia conducted testing of it’s nuclear missile capabilities by land, sea and air. Two Ukrainian soldiers were reported killed by shelling from pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine on Saturday.