Ukraine has drawn parallels between its building tensions with Moscow and Russian military operations during previous Olympic Games. Kyiv fears that Moscow could use Rio 2016 as valuable cover should it seek to escalate the situation in Ukraine's southeast.
Newsweek: Ukraine concerned with Vladimir Putin’s Olympic war games
A woman walks past one of the armoured personell carriers of Russian SOBR (Special Police Forces) which arrived in the Crimean capital Simferopol, on May 15 2014.
