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Russia on Thursday announced sweeping naval drills in several parts of the world this month and claimed the West is plotting provocations in neighbouring Ukraine where the Kremlin has been. Tensions are rising on Ukraines border with Russia.

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. Multiple countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine as tensions soar. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby says we believe that. It moved to shed its Russian imperial legacy and forge.

Ukraine which was part of the Russian empire for centuries before becoming a Soviet republic won independence as the USSR broke up in 1991. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied he currently intends to attack Ukraine but has warned that the US. On 1 December Russia accused Ukraine of deploying half its army about 125000 troops in Donbas to confront pro-Russian separatists.

Russia has amassed more than 125000 troops near Ukraines northern and eastern borders raising concern that Moscow might invade. Russias illegal seizure of Crimea in 2014 was the biggest land grab in Europe since World War II and it violated many commitments that. Russia positions more forces supply lines as fears rise of potential Ukraine invasion.

And NATO have ignored Russias demands and left. On 3 December President Putin criticized Ukraine for using a Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone against pro-Russian separatists in Donbas saying the move violated the Minsk peace agreements. Tensions are rising between Russia and the West over Ukraine.

A Russian invasion of Ukraine could begin at any time US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday. Russia and Ukraine were members of the erstwhile USSR the United Soviet Social Republic of Russia before its disintegration in 1991 after which Ukraine declared its independence. Since Ukraine occupies a strategic geographical position sitting at the center of the fight for influence in Europe Russia wants to prevent Ukraine from turning towards the West.

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