For many years, the Black Sea was largely ignored by geostrategists. But with Russia s invasion of Ukraine and its aggressive posturing elsewhere in the region, countries along its shores find themselves on a dangerous fault line. How are they dealing with their belligerent neighbor?
Ukrainians alarmed as troops mass on their doorstep According to a few analysts Moscow intends to invade eastern Ukraine given the likely backlash at home and abroad
There are the booms that echo again, and parents know to tell their children they are only fireworks. There are the drones the separatists started flying behind the lines at night, dropping land mines. There are the fresh trenches the Ukrainians can see their enemy digging, the increase in sniper fire pinning them inside their own.
But perhaps the starkest evidence that the seven-year-old war in Ukraine may be entering a new phase is what Captain Mykola Levytskyi coast guard unit saw cruising in the Azov Sea just outside the port city of Mariupol last week: a flotilla of Russian amphibious assault ships.
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‘A threat from the Russian State’: Ukrainians alarmed as troops mass on their doorstep
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‘A threat from the Russian State’: Ukrainians alarmed as troops mass on their doorstepNew York Times
Last Updated: Apr 20, 2021, 02:00 PM IST
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Since the start of the war in 2014, Russia has used the pretext of a separatist conflict to pressure Ukraine after its Westward-looking revolution, supplying arms and men to Kremlin-backed rebels in the country’s east while denying it was a party to the fight.
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This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry press-service shows servicemen of the National Guard taking part in a military drill near the Ukrainian Azov Sea port of Mariupol on April 19, 2021
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