About 100,000 Russian troops have surfaced on Ukraine’s border, prompting the United States and its NATO allies to warn of impending sanctions and using political maneuvers in an attempt to deter a possible Russian attack on Ukraine. Andreas Krieg, an associate professor in the defense studies department at King’s College London, said any Russian invasion of Ukraine would carry “a lot of risks for casualties on both sides”. Moscow accuses Kyiv and the West of provocative behavior and says all its actions are purely defensive and .
