Defence Minister Anita Anand arrived in a snowy Kyiv on Sunday and echoed the warnings of western allies about the looming threat of an invasion by Russia amid an increasingly frosty international deadlock over the crisis in eastern Europe.
The Ukrainian government has been signalling that military action on the part of Moscow is not imminent and that western allies need to dial back the alarmist talk.
The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Friday tried to buck up the spirits of his people, and Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba was quoted in a statement on Saturday calling on the West to remain “vigilant and firm in
