This was announced by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with CNN.

According to him, there are between 30,000 and 35,000 Russian servicemen in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea.

"So, provocations are really very dangerous if there are so many troops. One shelling, one artillery shot can lead to war", - the Ukrainian president said.

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At the same time, he noted that such fears are shared by Ukraine's neighbors.

"We know the history of the Soviet Union, and they understand the risks we face. Poland, the Baltics, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Moldova - they know what it could lead to. So we need to be very careful", - Zelensky said.

WHat is known

• Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said international peace could not be taken for granted and threatened the Kremlin that "Russia would get even more NATO on its borders" because of the threat of new aggression against Ukraine.
• The North Atlantic Alliance has so far seen no signs of de-escalation by Russia on the Ukrainian border.
• The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the Russian armed forces had completed military exercises, and units began to return to their permanent locations.

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