Putin 'Moves Forces On Ukraine Border To Base'

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian forces operating along the border with Ukraine to return to their bases, according to the Kremlin.

It is the second time Mr Putin has said Russian forces are being pulled back, with the Russian President announcing on May 7 that they had been "withdrawn".

Interfax quoted a Kremlin press spokesman as saying on Monday: "Due to the end of the planned spring training of troops that included their movement to Rostov, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions, the Russian president ordered... troops participating in the drills to return to their permanent bases."

Russia has about 40,000 troops near the border with Ukraine, where Ukraine's security forces and separatists have been engaged in low-level conflict.

On May 7, Mr Putin said: "We're always being told that our forces on the Ukrainian border are a concern. We have withdrawn them."

It prompted the US and Nato to say they could find no evidence that Russia had moved its forces back.

Nato again stated it could see no sign of Russian troops being moved back.

A senior Nato military officer told Reuters: "We haven't seen any movement to validate (the report)."

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