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The Kremlin has also threatened to breach the border between itself and Ukraine with a Russian official stating last week that Russia would be ready to defend citizens living in eastern Ukraine. .

Ukrainian Defense Minister Andrii Taran said on Saturday that Moscow was trying to pressure Kiev to cave negotiations by ramping up its military presence at the border, but added that Ukraine would not back down.

“[T]he actual goals of building up of military presence by the Russian Federation alongside the Ukrainian border and at the temporary occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, might be the increase of pressure on Ukraine for the purpose of forcing it to yield in the course of the negotiation process,” Taran said in a statement Saturday