NATO says Russian military buildup continues on Ukraine's "Unity Day"
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Kyiv — Russia said Wednesday that more of its forces were pulling back from Ukraine's borders after military exercises. A day earlier, the U.S. and its NATO allies met Moscow's initial claims of a pullback with intense skepticism, but they made it clear that both sides intend to continue negotiating for a solution to the standoff between East and West, in which Ukraine is caught perilously in the middle.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the U.S. had yet to see any proof of Russia's claims that it was pulling some of the estimated 150,000 forces massed around Ukraine's northern, eastern and southern borders back to their bases. A Russian invasion, he said, "remains distinctly possible."
On Wednesday, before meeting U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said not only was there no evidence of a withdrawal, but "on the contrary, it appears that Russia continues their military build-up."
