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FILE - Service members of a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces drive tanks during military exercises outside Kharkiv Ukraine Jan. Just this week the Russian stock market has fallen by 14 per cent.

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The foreign minister said that Ukraine becoming a NATO member is a choice of the people of Ukraine adding that no one but Ukraine and.

. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after recognising them as independent on Monday accelerating a crisis the West fears. Putin has decided to attack says Health Secretary. Russias Vladimir Putin says he is recognising breakaway rebel regions in Ukraines east as independent states.

Ukraine has been part of Russia in a few instances of geopolitical history. US president Joe Biden announced sanctions against Russia and the Russian presidents decision to send troops into eastern Ukraine was the beginning of. It is the second-largest European country after Russia.

It lies between latitudes 44 and 53 N and longitudes 22 and 41 E. However the effect of further sanctions. It covers an area of 603628 square kilometres 233062 sq mi and with a coastline of 2782 kilometres 1729 mi.

The threat of war between Russia and Ukraine is already affecting the worlds markets. Ukraine is a large country in Eastern Europe lying mostly in the East European Plain. The self-declared peoples republics of Donetsk and Luhansk are.

The US says it has credible information that Russia is creating lists of Ukrainians to be. The Health Secretary also described the move as a dark day for Europe. US reveals claims of Russian kill list in Ukraine.

Security correspondent BBC News. Most notably as part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century then in the 1920s after a war of independence delivered.

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