Movement of Russian forces does not confirm withdrawal from Ukraine’s border, says NATO

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said again on Wednesday that Moscow had to prove it was withdrawing its troops amid tensions over a military build-up on NATO’s borders. Ukraine. The organization’s representative said that soldiers and tanks are used to moving.

“It remains to be seen whether there is a Russian withdrawal… What we see is that they have increased the number of troops, and more troops are on the way,” Stoltenberg told reporters at the start of a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters. alliance in Brussels.

“If they really start withdrawing forces, that’s something we’ll welcome… They’ve always moved forces back and forth. So, just what we see, the movement of forces, of battle tanks, does not confirm a real withdrawal,” said the NATO representative.

However, the Kremlin declared that NATO was wrong about the statement about the withdrawal of Russian forces from the border with Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has stressed his desire to negotiate, admitting that recognizing the independence of the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine would not be in in line with the Minsk Accords.

Source: CNN Brasil

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