Ukrainian soldiers and police have conducted a large number of exercises in recent days.
Ukraine said on Sunday that it wanted a meeting with Russia and other members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) within the next 48 hours to discuss the buildup of Russian troops on its border.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia of ignoring his government following Kiev on Friday invoked a section of the Vienna Convention, a set of security agreements, to demand that Moscow explain its military activities in area.
According to Convention from Viennaof which Russia is a party, OSCE members can request information regarding a member’s military activities.
“If Russia is serious when it talks regarding the indivisibility of security in the OSCE space, it must honor its commitment to military transparency to reduce tensions and improve security for all,” Kuleba said.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine, despite concentrating more than 100,000 soldiers Near the border.
The United States said this weekend that Moscow might begin the invasion with aerial bombardment “at any moment,” and more than a dozen nations have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine.
The UK, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands are among the nations that have urged their citizens to leave as soon as possible.
Ukraine’s ambassador to London, Vadym Prystaiko, has retracted comments he made to the BBC in which he said Ukraine was willing to be “flexible” in its ambition to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). which would have been a huge concession for Russia.
But in a later interview, he said that Ukraine had a constitutional commitment to join the military alliance and that its admission would depend on the “willingness of NATO itself.”
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