Russia claim to 'pull back' troops near Ukraine - Nato cannot verify de-escalation

Russia claimed on Tuesday to be pulling back around 10,000 troops from its Western and Southern to barracks after military drills.

Responding to the claim, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that there is no indication of any de-escalation on the ground.

“Russia has amassed a fighting force in and around Ukraine, unprecedented since the Cold War”, Mr Stoltenberg said.

“Everything is now in place for a new attack, but Russia still has time to step back from the brink”, Mr Stoltenberg said, urging Russia “to stop preparing for war and start working for a peaceful solution to the crisis.”

Around 130,000 remain on Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders with around 40,000 pro-Putin forces in Belarus to the north.

Another 30,000 pro-Russian separatists were facing Ukraine defenders in the captured Donbas enclave.

And preparations continued apace in Kyiv yesterday as anti-aircraft systems were seen moving into position along with columns of National Guard vehicles.

A military source said: “We cannot take anything that Russia says or does at face value. We have to prepare to defend ourselves.”

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[DDGR]

Love how there's barely any news surrounding covid now, it's like it's vanished all because the media don't report about it, just goes to show that the less you watch the news the less things matter.

[alokranjan]

Sadly, This de-escalation is actually a sign that now Putin has made the decision to invade instead.

If he would have attacked without any troops comeback, he wouldn't have been able to explain to the world and his citizens why he attacked.

Now, he can say that look we were de-escalating but they provoked us and so we had to respond.

I wish, hope and pray that I'm wrong

[snowtfl]

Sun tzu “appear strong when you are weak and weak when you are strong” he’s got all his troops in position and his drills are complete if he wanted to invade it would make sense to de escalate so nato and Ukraine could be caught by surprise

[et]

The art of war discipline was certainly not lost on Mr. Putin.

[AngryIlluminati]

There is something about Putin saying his military is pulling back that makes me think his military is pushing forward.

[Orbit_Corona]

The Sun you released 2 videos this morning. One has Boris Johnson saying that Russia is scaling back its military from the border. That was great news. Now in this video they are saying they don't know anything about that. Thanks for confusing me.

[chrisho]

The Art of War: Confuse the enemy of your true intentions!

[srahm]

It's as if Russia went to the border just to drop their trousers and moon Nato 😂

[danielarammal]

All i can see and hear is the western world or the NATO talking about war not Russia ....

[akashahmmed]

bye bye american
Bye bye Israel
Bye bye NATO

[TopTechTrendsX]

They heard Ronnie Pickering was on the frontlines.

[ContraryClipsHub]

🤣😂🤣 learn the art of war no one had pulled back

[harveybarnes]

Waiting now for the next covid variant.

[crazydave]

They never were planning on invading in the first place.

[CrunchyNorbert]

Nato desperately needs to keep a hostile stance to russia or they all lose their jobs

[winstonchinogwenya]

So Russia has finished war games and going home, whilst the nosy neighbours speculate on what’s going on.😂

[TheStan]

If he wanted to invade he would do it without The Sun commenting on his every move lol. The Sun are his media outlet

[johnsalvage]

Removing all their old WWII vehicles they have been using for target practice. They missed most of them so they can still move under their own steam !

[glenstevenson]

Ha ha dummy uk media you got it wrong

[DaviMKim]

100k + 30k - 30k = 100k






Thats not a pull back BOI 💩⚠️