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‘Russia could take action in Ukraine as early as this week,’ Blinken says

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia has escalated, rather than de-escalated tensions over Ukraine in the past few days. © FRANCE 24

The United States is “deeply concerned that Russia could take action against Ukraine as early as this week”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told FRANCE 24 in an interview on Monday.

The Pentagon announced on Monday that Russia had increased the number of troops surrounding Ukraine over the weekend, estimating the total number of Russian troops along the Russia-Ukraine border and in Belarus at well above 100,000.

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