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thousands of russian troops have surrounded the ukrainian border. This may have been caused by ukraine's request to join the NATO group. Negotiations have failed so far ,as troop and vehicle buildup continues. Protests and unrest have broken out in ukraine and ukrainian troops are now on the front lines awaiting a possible invasion by russian forces. The united states has put 8,900 troops on notice for possible deployment to ukraine The U.S has also decided to send weapons and equipment to ukraine as the threat of invasion grows.Tiktok users in the russian/ukrainian area have helped the U.S intelligence by posting photos and images. One such video taken from a moving car showed several snow covered russian tanks being transported by a train. Few U.S troops are in ukraine right now,but more could be joining them. civilian military groups based in ukraine have started combat training. At a recent UN security council meeting, russia and the united states exchanged harsh words. The meeting ended with no action on both sides.Putin recently said that Russia had not seen "adequate consideration of our three key demands regarding NATO expansion, the renunciation of the deployment of strike weapons systems near Russian borders, and the return of the [NATO] bloc's military infrastructure in Europe to the state of 1997, when the Russia-NATO founding act was signed." Putin also accused the US directly of attempting to "draw us into armed conflict" over the Ukraine crisis by using the country as a "tool" for NATO operations. He claimed that Washington's main goal is to force "allies in Europe to impose the very tough sanctions against us," or "draw Ukraine into NATO." The US and NATO have said Putin's demands -- which include a promise to never expand eastward to countries including Ukraine -- violate NATO's open-door policy and are non-starters in negotiations. Putin also reiterated his opposition to the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO, and said Kyiv was attempting to retake Crimea -- the Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in 2014 -- by military force, potentially bringing the alliance into open conflict with Russia. "This [Crimea] is sovereign Russian territory, the question is closed for us," he said. "Let's imagine that Ukraine is a NATO country and starts these military operations. Then what, we should fight against the NATO bloc? So, has anyone thought about this? Looks like no." US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a phone call Tuesday. Following that call, a senior State Department official said Lavrov did not give an indication that Moscow will de-escalate from the border with Ukraine. Blinken told Lavrov that if Putin "does not intend war or regime change," then it was time to pull back troops and heavy weaponry and engage in serious, diplomatic discussions, the official said. Lavrov responded that the escalation that the US was claiming was not occurring, the official said, but that it was merely Russia moving troops within its own borders. US State Department officials confirmed Monday they had "received a written followup from Russia" to a document of proposals the US sent to the Kremlin last week on how to defuse tensions and pave the way for further security talks in response to Russia's demands on security. On Tuesday, however, the Kremlin said that Russia had not yet sent its "main reply" to the US. "There was a mix-up," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call. "It [the Russian correspondence] regarded a different matter. The main reply on this issue hasn't been handed over, it's still being prepared." Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a press conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday. Johnson accused Russia of "holding a gun to Ukraine" and warned that a potential invasion of Ukraine by Russia would be a "political" and "humanitarian disaster." "The potential invasion completely flies in the face of President Putin's claims to be acting in the interests of the Ukrainian people," Johnson said. DONATING: To donate or learn more about ways to help ukrainians affected by this standoff please copy and paste these links into your search engine: https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/europe-central-asia/ukraine https://www.drk.de/en/aid-worldwide/where-we-work/europe/ukraine-help-for-the-victims-of-civil-unrest/
