On Ukraine’s border as tensions escalate with Russia - BBC Newsnight

Newsnight’s international editor Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Ukraine’s border with Belarus, where 20,000 Russian troops are stationed as the threat of war escalates. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

Russia has some 100,000 troops near Ukraine - but denies planning to invade.

The tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.

If diplomacy fails, would Ukrainians fight in a war with Russia?

Newsnight’s international editor Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Ukraine’s border with Belarus.

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