Russia's defence ministry releases video purportedly showing tanks and fighting vehicles leaving the Crimean Peninsula, but NATO says it remains to be seen if Moscow is pulling back.
Russia says more of its forces near Ukraine have withdrawn, but NATO is urging Moscow to prove it is pulling back, saying there are signs more troops are on the way.Russia has mocked Western fears of a Ukraine invasion as hysterical war propagandaBritain joined the United States on Wednesday in saying it had yet to be convinced the pullout was real. While in Ukraine, the defence ministry said an unprecedented cyber attack was into its second day.
NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said a pullout would be welcome but moving troops about did not confirm it. "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," he told reporters at the start of a two-day meeting of NATO defence ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels.
The deployment in the Crimean Peninsula was part of a huge build-up of Russian forces to the north, east and south of Ukraine since November that had prompted London and Washington to warn in recent days that a Russian invasion looked imminent.Russia mocked those warnings as hysterical war propaganda when it announced on Tuesday that some units were starting to return to base after completing exercises.
On Wednesday the Kremlin said NATO was wrong to say there was no evidence of a pullout and that Russian President Vladimir Putin had stressed his desire to negotiate.
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