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On the evening of Thursday February 3, Emmanuel Macron should meet with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts. He does not despair of lowering the tension while Washington claims at the same time that Moscow has prepared fake videos to serve as a pretext to attack Ukraine. The Russians continue to mass troops on the Ukrainian border.
Military fuel carriers, troop carriers, rescue vehicles, and even armored vehicles escorted by police in the middle of traffic. They are visible 200 km from Moscow, a sign that the Russian army continues to deploy on the Ukrainian border. About 100,000 Russian soldiers would be massed there. They established their base in various places near the border, such as an old storage ammunition abandoned or in an old airfield.
AT Klimovo (Russia)12 km from the border, the inhabitants noticed the permanent parade of military vehicles at the end of their street. Most of them have family on their side of the border in Ukraine, but no one is preparing for conflict. They stick to the official Russian version. “Poutine will not attack, he will defend himself, but he will not attack”, thinks this resident interviewed by the special envoy Luc Lacroix.