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Ukraine: Kremlin accuses Washington of escalation after putting troops on alert
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Ukraine: Kremlin accuses Washington of escalation after putting troops on alert

Moscow | The Kremlin on Tuesday denounced the alerting of thousands of American troops because of the Russian-Western crisis over Ukraine, seeing it as a new “exacerbation of tensions” by Washington. “It is with great concern that we see these American actions,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. According to him, "de facto", the United States causes "an exacerbation of tensions". Washington has placed up to 8,500 soldiers on alert, and they could be ready in five days to reinforce the military alliance's Rapid Reaction Force, made up of 40,000 soldiers. However, the decision to deploy them has not been taken. Westerners accuse Moscow of having deployed more than 100,000 soldiers on the border of its pro-Western neighbor, Ukraine, threateni...