Russian military forces are massing near Ukraine’s eastern borders, increasing fears that Moscow is planning a larger military incursion into the former Soviet republic.
Photographs of Russian tanks were posted on Facebook Thursday revealing one tank column near the town of Sudzha, Russia—within five miles of the border with Ukraine.
In Kiev, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Russian military forces were staging troops on the Ukrainian-Russian border and are continuing to expand military forces in the southern Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow is attempting to take over.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevgeniy Perebiynis told reporters that the massing of Russian troops in the northeastern and north central border regions at a briefing on Wednesday.
According to Russia’s Interfax news agency, some 50 Ukrainian border service facilities have been blockaded or seized by Russian troops.
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