international order, as well as the european security architecture built after the cold war. all this is a response to a recent escalation of russian military activity close to ukraine. in satellite images, we can see russia has over 100,000 troops close to the ukraine border. and that's not all. these pictures are from today. russia has also been holding large—scale joint military drills with belarusian forces. belarus borders ukraine. but the ukrainian foreign minister maintains that russia hasn't yet gathered enough forces to mount a full—scale invasion. at this moment, my assessment of ukraine and its partners, - this number and composition of forces is not sufficient - for a full—scale invasion. however, we keep vigilant, _ we keep monitoring further dynamics. i want to reiterate, _ ukraine calls on russia to withdraw the troops it amassed - near our border, bring them back to their bases, -