With an estimated 130,000 Russian troops stationed near the Ukrainian border and another 30,000 in Belarus, fears that Vladimir Putin intends to invade his western neighbour are intensifying.
The standoff comes eight years after Russia annexed Crimea and sparked fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where a low-level conflict that has since killed more than 14,000 people is still rumbling on between Kyiv and pro-Russian separatists.
