Russia continues to deny it has plans to invade, but the Ukrainian people are readying themselves for what might come, and many say any invasion will spark a fierce resistance movement.
As tens of thousands of Russian troops mobilise on his country's border, Denys Diomin is making pizzas at a restaurant in Kyiv and contemplating a return to the battlefield.
While kneading dough as the lunchtime crowd built up, his thoughts turned to what might happen if Russia invaded his country."For Putin's hold on power, it will be a fatal step, because our nation is ready to fight. From every bush, from every window, we will be shooting," he said. "They want to restore old borders and they do not see Ukraine as a neighbouring country, but treat us as a territory under their control."Ukrainians have lived with the threat of further invasions from Russia since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.Ukrainian intelligence has estimated there are now at least 127,000 Russian troops massed on its border.
"Breaking Ukrainians' spirit would require an unprecedented level of terror, much higher than currently seen in neighbouring Belarus," she wrote.How Russia and Ukraine were driven apartBut in 1991, as the USSR collapsed, Ukraine broke away from Moscow's control and declared independence.
Since Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, he has driven the Ukrainians further towards the West and its institutions.
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