“Bluff” or true? Russian troops that were deployed near the border with Ukraine have begin to return to their barracksthe Russian Ministry of Defense supports today, Tuesday, at a time when the West is worried that a Russian military operation is imminent against Ukraine, and in fact in the next few hours.
“As military training measures come to an end, the troops, as always, will conduct combined marches to their permanent guards. “The units of the Southern and Western Military Districts that have completed their duties have already started loading personnel and equipment on the railway and road transport vehicles and today they will start heading towards their barracks,” TASS said in a statement.
This announcement, if it is finally true, it is the first sign of Moscow’s retreat into the crisis with the West that began in late 2021.
Moscow has mobilized more than 100,000 troops since December on the border with Ukraine, raising fears in Kiev of an impending invasion. Moscow denies this scenario, but seeks assurances of its security, such as a pledge that Ukraine will never join NATO, which the West rejects.
Russia is currently conducting joint military exercises with Belarus, which are expected to be completed on February 20.
Westerners, however, are afraid of provocation, with a staged “Ukrainian attack” in eastern Ukraine.
“I am afraid that Russia will not stop in Ukraine” “We may be on the brink of war,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Tras said in an interview with Sky News.
The British Foreign Secretary warned that a Russian invasion could includes other Eastern European countries. “President Putin has directly challenged why other countries in Eastern Europe are also members of NATO,” Tras told Sky News.
Increased Russian military activity in Belarus, Crimea and western Russia in the last 48 hours, however, reveal new satellite images, in the wake of growing rumors that the Russian attack from these very fronts, it ‘s just a matter of hours.
Satellite images collected by Maxar Technologies over the past 48 hours show large and large concentrations of troops and attack helicopters, ground attack aircraft and fighter-bombers.
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