Ukraine Says Russia Will Soon Have Over 120,000 Troops on Its Borders

Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces stand next to an armoured vehicle during a training at a firing range in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on April 20, 2021. Serhiy Takhmazov/Reuters

KYIV/BRUSSELS—Russia will soon have more than 120,000 troops on Ukraine’s border, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday, calling for new Western economic sanctions to deter Moscow from “further escalation.”

Washington and NATO have been alarmed by the large build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine and in Crimea, the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.