Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that it’s pulling some troops back, away from Russia’s borders with Ukraine. Ukraine’s government is skeptical, though. The Ukrainian foreign minister tweeted today: “we don’t believe what we hear, we believe what we see.” People in Ukraine living near the Russian border are keenly aware of what’s at stake. The World’s Daniel Ofman is just back from the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine.
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