By Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON (Reuters)–Russia should allow observers, including Western journalists, to attend upcoming military drills that could again put Ukraine on edge just as Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharpened his rhetoric, the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe told Reuters.
The comments by Lieutenant General Ben Hodges came as Ukraine accuses Russia of amassing more than 40,000 troops in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014, and on the Ukrainian border.
Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko warned this week the Russian forces could reflect “some very bad intentions.”
Hodges declined to offer estimates of Russian forces or speculate about …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
