The United States continues to see additions to the Russian forces near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs John Kirby told a briefing on Monday.
Asked to comment on reports saying that Russian troops are allegedly staying near the Russian-Ukrainian border, he said: “We’re watching this closely. And as for numbers, I wouldn’t get into an assessment here in terms of what we’re seeing exactly [on the border]. But I can tell you that we continue to see movement, we continue to see additions to their forces.”
“These are units of a combined nature. I mean, it’s different types of units that continue to collect on or not on, but near the Ukrainian border,” Kirby added.
“We’ve been watching with great concern these movements for a while now,” he noted.
Concerns over Moscow’s alleged preparations for an invasion into Ukraine have been increasingly announced in the west and in Kiev recently.
