Russia still building forces on Ukraine border, says top Nato official

The Guardian says Russia is continuing to send troops to what is now the biggest concentration of forces in Europe since the cold war, contradicting Moscow’s claims of a drawdown on Ukraine’s border, Nato’s secretary general has said.

Hours later a senior US official told reporters that Russia’s claims of withdrawal of some troops were “false” and that Moscow had “increased its troop presence along the Ukrainian border by as many as 7,000 troops”, many of them arriving in the past 24 hours.

“Every indication we have now is they mean only to publicly offer to talk and make claims about de-escalation while privately mobilizing for war,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/russia-still-building-forces-on-ukraine-border-says-top-nato-official