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Ukraine says Russia has nearly 100,000 troops near its border

cde.news desk 14 November 2021, 07:00 · 1 min read

Ukrainian border guards stands on a Russia - Ukraine border near of Goptivka village, about 35 km of Kharkiv, Ukraine, 06 March 2014. Crimea's parliament moved the date of all-Crimean referendum on the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to 16 March. Military observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have been stopped from entering Ukraine's Crimea peninsula at a checkpoint set up by pro-Russian militia, diplomats said in Vienna on 06 March. EPA/SERGEY KOZLOV

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said there are nearly 100,000 Russian soldiers near Ukraine’s border and that Western countries had shared information about active Russian troop movements with Kyiv.

“I hope the whole world can now clearly see who really wants peace and who is concentrating nearly 100,000 soldiers at our border,” he said in a video of a speech this week carried on his website.

The Russian troop movements near the Ukrainian border have spurred fears of a possible attack. Moscow has dismissed such suggestions as inflammatory and complained about increasing activity in the region by the NATO transatlantic alliance.

On Nov. 3, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry put the number of Russian troops near Ukraine’s border at 90,000.

Photo – Ukrainian border guards stands on a Russia – Ukraine border near of Goptivka village, about 35 km of Kharkiv, Ukraineh. EPA/SERGEY KOZLOV