Russia-Ukraine: "It's a test that the Biden administration is determined to pass"
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Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region, February 16, 2021. AFP - ANATOLII STEPANOV
By: Florent Guignard
8 mins
Tensions are mounting between Russia and Ukraine, on the Donbass front, at the border, in conflict since 2014. Thursday April 1, the Ukrainian president accused Russia of having reinforced its troops on the border and in Crimea.
Comments confirmed by the Americans who fear an intensification of the clashes.
Since January, around 20 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, including four this Friday.
Decryption with Cyrille Bret, lecturer at Sciences po Paris, co-director of the geopolitics site EurAsia Prospective and specialist in Russia.
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