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Tens of thousands of Russian troops have amassed at the nation’s border with eastern Ukraine in the largest military buildup of its kind since 2014.
Russia has reportedly sent 16 additional battalion tactical groups, or 14,000 soldiers to the border, Ukrainian intelligence sources told BBC News. The Ukrainian presidency estimated that there are now roughly 40,000 total Russian troops in the area.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meanwhile, expressed concern and noted that the buildup was the largest of its kind in seven years, prior to his meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) chief Jens Stoltenberg Wednesday morning.
“[We’ll] discuss the concerns shared across the alliance and among allies about Russia’s actions in and near Ukraine, particularly the significant massing of forces, the largest since 2014, and we’ll talk about the future of our alliance,” Blinken said before privately meeting with Stoltenberg at NATO’s Brussels, Belgium,
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