Russia’s moves in recent days to amass troops at the border and deploy navy landing ships and gunboats to the Black Sea have sparked debate among experts about whether Vladimir Putin is truly preparing to escalate his country’s seven-year conflict against Ukraine or simply mounting a defiant show – for his own people, or for the new U.S. administration, which is preparing to enact harsh new sanctions.
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An Ukrainian serviceman uses a periscope in a trench as he stands at his post on the frontline with Russia backed separatists near the town of Zolote, in the Luhansk region on April 8, 2021.
