Mariupol, Ukraine – Children play in the park, a husky busker sings Pink Floyd under the winter sun, teens giggle as they slip over on an outdoor ice-skating rink – a day like any other, it might seem, not a country on the eve of a possible full-scale invasion by Russia.
While defence monitors said on Tuesday that it appeared Russia was moving some military hardware away from the border with Ukraine, the West remained resolute in its assessment of the current threat posed to the country.
