Putin Masses Troops to Tell NATO to Stay Out of Ukraine
- Russia military buildup sparks U.S. fears of Ukraine invasion
- Kremlin tactics fuel tensions with West as disputes multiply
Photographer: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images
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Vladimir Putin has a message for the U.S. and its allies: Moscow won’t tolerate creeping expansion by their armed forces into Ukraine.
That’s what he’s told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other western officials who’ve called in recent days to warn him about what they say is a new accumulation of tanks and troops near the border with his neighbor that has Washington and some other capitals worried that the Russian president could be planning a repeat of the 2014 invasion.