{"id":119533,"date":"2021-04-20T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T06:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119533"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T06:40:32","slug":"eu-warns-150000-russian-troops-massed-around-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119533","title":{"rendered":"EU warns 150,000 Russian troops massed around Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EU-warns-150000-Russian-troops-massed-around-Ukraine.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EU-warns-150000-Russian-troops-massed-around-Ukraine.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRUSSELS, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that Russia has massed over 150,000 troops along the Ukrainian border and in the annexed Crimea peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is the highest Russian military deployment at Ukrainian borders ever,\u201d Borrell told journalists after talks involving Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, refusing to disclose the source of the figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe risk of further escalation, it\u2019s evident,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions have spiralled over the build-up of Russian troops around its southwestern neighbour as an intensification of clashes with Moscow-backed separatists has fuelled fears of a return to widespread fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow\u2019s military says it is conducting exercises along its frontier in response to moves by Western military alliance NATO that \u201cthreaten Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said last week that \u201ctwo armies and three airborne units were successfully deployed\u201d to the Russia\u2019s western border and that the drills would be over \u201cwithin two weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine is pushing the West for more practical support as it looks to deter any further aggression from Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiev\u2019s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pressed the EU to prepare \u201ca new set of sectoral sanctions\u201d against Russia in talks with his counterparts from the 27-nation bloc on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Borrell said that there were currently no further sanctions being proposed or under consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian build-up comes as clashes between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed separatists have flared in the east in recent weeks, shredding a ceasefire brokered last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Ukrainian soldier was killed and one more wounded in the latest bloodshed in the conflict-ridden east, the military said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiev has been battling pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions since 2014, following Moscow\u2019s seizure of Crimea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talks between advisers to the heads of state of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France \u2014 which have been negotiating over the conflict since 2015 \u2014 are scheduled to be held later on Monday in Kiev. &#8212; 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