Baerbock: Over 100,000 Russian Troops Near Ukraine

Baerbock: Over 100,000 Russian Troops Near Ukraine
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock attends a news conference in Moscow, on Jan. 18, 2022. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
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Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday said that Russia in recent weeks has amassed more than 100,000 troops with guns and tanks near the Ukraine border “without an understandable reason”.

“It’s hard not to understand that as a threat,” Annalena Baerbock told reporters during a briefing with her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.