Russian army movements on border with Ukraine not a precursor of war, Kremlin says, citing need to defend against NATO buildup

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The deployment of military hardware and thousands of troops to Western Russia is not the beginning of an invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has said, but instead just a normal part of defending the country.

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov was asked by journalists on Monday to justify sizable army movements around the southern city of Rostov. One reporter asked whether the soldiers might get “lost like they did in 2014,” when Ukraine claims Russian forces ‘invaded’ the Crimean peninsula.

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