According
to social media footage from november
7th London-based jains said in an
analysis provided to Bloomberg News, the tanks appear headed for the Pago Novo training ground the same one where
a russian military buildup in the spring
sparked western demands for a pullback.
According to jane's fighting has picked up at times in
recent weeks between ukrainian forces
and russian-backed separatists in the
east of the country. Ukraine used a turkish-made drone for
the first time to attack a separatist
howitzer in response to a strike that
killed one soldier and wounded another
on october 26th.
Last weekJjane said it identified the
deployment of tanks and self-propelled
artillery from the same russian division
to the Bryansk and Kursk regions on
ukraine's northern border on october
28-29. The u.s is closely monitoring the
unusual buildup of russian military
activity near ukraine.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said friday
any escalatory or aggressive actions by
russia would be of great concern to the
united states. Russia has said troop movements on its
own territory are an internal matter and
denied any aggressive intentions.
The ukrainian government has said
russian force levels haven't changed
substantially since tensions spiked in
the spring, there is some strengthening. Presidential
spokesman sir Hee Nikiforov said monday
it is too early to make any conclusions
about russia's aims, in the spring the us
and its allies accused russia of moving
as many as 100,000 troops close to the
border.
Amid demands for a pullback the Kremlin
said it began to return the units to
their bases deep inside russia in april
easing concerns. In contrast to the fairly open build up
in the spring the recent russian
deployment is covert often taking place
at night and is by elite ground units, according to Jane's.
The moves appeared aimed less at
intimidation than at producing an active
threat, the, Firm said. U.S President joe biden dispatched CIA Director Bill Burns to moscow last week
to warn the Kremlin that washington is
carefully watching its troop deployment
near the border with ukraine.
CNN reported citing u.s and ukrainian
officials, President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone
with burns about regional conflicts. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told
reporters monday ceasefire violations have been
increasing in war-ravaged eastern
ukraine where persistent violence has
continued since 2015 peace accords to
end a conflict sparked by the
russian-backed separatists.
