Associated Press
- Russia says its pulling some troops from the Ukrainian border following completed military drills.
- The US has for weeks warned that Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment.
- Russia has amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine’s border since late last year.
The Russian defense ministry said it was pulling some of its troops from Ukraine’s border.
It comes after weeks of heightened tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the West over fears of a possible Russian invasion.
“Units of the Southern and Western Military Districts, which have accomplished their missions, are boarding trains and trucks and will head for their garrisons later today,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, Interfax reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova suggested Tuesday the US and its western allies had wrongly stoked fears of an invasion.
“February 15, 2022 will go down in history as the day Western war propaganda failed. Humiliated and destroyed without a single shot fired,” she said, according to Mark MacKinnon, a senior international correspondent at The Globe and Mail.
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