Russia Still Sending Troops to Ukraine's Borders, War in Front?

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Russia Still Sending Troops to Ukraine's Borders, War in Front?


Russia's military presence, it turns out, is steadily growing on Ukraine's borders, Western countries warned Wednesday, as Estonia said red bear country combat groups were moving ahead.

Reuters reports more armored vehicles, helicopters and field hospitals have been spotted near the Ukrainian border, Britain's head of defense intelligence revealed in rare public comments.

More than 7,000 troops have been transferred to Ukraine's borders in recent days, including several who arrived Wednesday, according to a senior official in US President Joe Biden's administration, without providing evidence.

"There's what Russia says, and then there's what Russia does. And, we haven't seen his troops retreat," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview on MSNBC.

"We continue to see important (Russian) units moving towards the (Ukraine) border, not away from the border," he said.

NATO prepares new combat unit

Mikk Marran, director general of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, said about 10 groups of Russian troops were moving towards the Ukrainian border, where an estimated 170,000 troops have been deployed.

The attack would include missile bombing and the occupation of "main ground", he added, as reported by Reuters.

"If Russia is successful in Ukraine, it will encourage it to increase pressure on the Baltics in the years to come," Marran said. "The threat of war has become a key policy tool for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin."

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Russia's Defense Ministry said its troops were withdrawn after exercises in the Southern and Western Military Districts near Ukraine.

And, the Russian Ambassador to Ireland insisted, troops in Western Russia would return to their normal positions in three to four weeks.

Russia's Defense Ministry released a video it said showed tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery units leaving the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow captured from Ukraine in 2014.

However, NATO military commanders are drawing up plans for a new combat unit that diplomats say could be deployed in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

Such units, designed to buy time for additional troops to reach the front if needed, already exist in Poland and the Baltic states.

Meanwhile Britain will double its strength in Estonia and send tanks and armored fighting vehicles to the Baltic republic bordering Russia as part of a NATO deployment.




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