A two-minute leaked video with the caption “ready to fight” appears to show Russian troops in tanks in position near the Ukrainian border as tensions flare up between neighboring countries.
The recording, apparently taken by Russian soldiers, captures a group of armored vehicles gathering in a muddy field, and then switches to show a variety of military trucks loaded into a train for long-distance transport, reports The Sun .
A short scene called “military training” shows a large piece of crane-like machinery behind a zinc wire.
The Biden government said this week that the US could send warships to the Black Sea in the next few weeks to counter Russia’s increasing military presence on Ukraine’s border.
The annexation of Russia in the Crimean region in 2014 in Russia led to the imposition of sanctions by the US and the European Union and sparked ongoing conflict there.
According to Ukrainian officials, 14,000 people were killed.
