A two-minute excerpt of a leaked video titled “Ready to Fight” appears to show Russian troops maneuvering tanks at their position near the Ukrainian border as tensions between neighboring nations erupt.
The clip, apparently recorded by Russian soldiers, captures a group of armored vehicles gathering in a muddy field and then switches to show an assortment of military trucks that have been loaded onto a train for long-distance transportation, The reported. Sun.
A brief scene called “military training” shows a large piece of crane-like machinery behind a corrugated metal fence.
This week, the Biden administration said the U.S. could send warships into the Black Sea in the coming weeks to counter the increase in Russia’s military presence on the Ukrainian border.
Russia’s annexation to the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 led to the imposition of US and European Union sanctions and sparked ongoing conflict.
Ukrainian officials say the fighting there killed 14,000 people.
