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Washington's Ambassador to OSCE: Russian military forces on border with Ukraine have increased

Washington's Ambassador to OSCE: Russian military forces on border with

Washington's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has said Russia may have up to 190,000 troops stationed in and around Ukraine amid warnings from the West that Moscow may be seeking to create a "pretext". to attack her neighbor.

Michael Carpenter said at today's OSCE meeting that the United States had revised its estimate of the number of troops gathered from Moscow between 169,000-190,000 from three weeks ago, when he said Washington believed the number of troops in deployed in the border areas and on the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Moscow was 100,000.

His statement came as Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists exchanged new accusations of bombings and other ceasefire violations, and Moscow announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend key nuclear exercises.

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