Russia announced this Wednesday, February 16, 2022, the end of military maneuvers and the withdrawal of some of its Crimean forces, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow.
The Russian Defense Ministry, quoted by Russian agencies, announced that the units of the South Military District have completed their tactical exercises on the bases of the Crimean peninsula where the deployment of troops fueled the fears of invasion of Ukraine.
Despite, this partial withdrawal of Russian troops that Moscow claims to have started in relaxation after two months of fears about an invasion of Ukraine, the United States remains suspicious on this promise
World leaders yesterday still spoke all day to find a diplomatic outcome to this Russian-Western crisis. At the end of a meeting with the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vladimir Putin had assured that he did not want war.