sergey lavrov. militarily the situation is very tense on the border. you have the russian troops, about 100,000, over 100,000, the exact number really depends on which estimate you get, anywhere between 70,120,000 are on three sides of the russian border, the north, east, the south. and then tanks and troops were recently moved into belarus, which also borders also borders ukraine. it s actually relatively close to kiev, and russia has said that it will send aircraft and antimissile systems into belarus as well, and the expectation is those troops will stay there for a considerable amount of time. so the ukrainian troops on this side of the border are nervous. they re worried about what they describe as provocations. they say that the russians are and russian-backed