Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Prestige Issue For US, Russia The Russia-Ukraine conflict and involvement of US-Russia in Ukraine is most likely to give free reins to China for growing into exercising unrestricted authority. The US declared 16th Feb, 2022 for war. Therefore India asked her embassy in Ukraine to vacate and come back to India. However, the Russian defense ministry announced on 16th Feb, '22 the end of military drills and the pull back of troops amid Ukraine standoff in Russian occupied Crimea. The Russian defence ministry shared a video of Russian military equipment and forces leaving Crimea. The move comes after Moscow said on Tuesday the 15th Feb that some of its troops are returning to home bases, indicating cooling of tensions regarding the Ukraine issue. There are 130,000 Russian troops deployed in north, east and south of Ukraine bordering Russia, but Russia did not say how many units were being withdrawn nor NATO, as it said, could see any sign of de-escalation on