Russia’s Massive Military Drills on Ukraine Border Stir Invasion Fears

Russia kicked off big-scale army exercise routines in Belarus on its western borders with Poland and Lithuania and alongside its southern flank around Ukraine, an escalation of the standoff in between Moscow and Western powers and a achievable precursor to a Russian invasion of a smaller neighbor.

Western officers consider the Russian workouts in Belarus could open up a achievable new vector to launch an assault on Ukraine, including to the 100,000 troops Moscow has now deployed to the Russian-Ukrainian border. The Kremlin claims the military exercise is in reaction to a menace from the West to its possess stability.