New Delhi, 10 February 2022

As per news report of BBC, Belarus is a close ally of Russia and has a long border with Ukraine. The US has called the drills - believed to be Russia's biggest deployment to Belarus since the Cold War - an "escalatory" move. Ukraine says they amount to "psychological pressure". Russia has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops at the border. But the US and other Western countries have warned that an attack could come at any time. Moscow says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join the Western defence alliance Nato and has demanded that this be ruled out. It has been backing an armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine since 2014.

Source - BBC

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