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Many of you will have heard about the tensions around Russia and the Ukraine. The Ukraine would like the US and UK troops to remain there, to help them should Russia attack. They claim it would be best to fight Russia in the Ukraine, than on NATO membership soil. However, the US & UK forces stationed in the Ukraine to train their forces were being quickly pulled out over the weekend, with suspicions that Russia's attack is imminent.

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Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said in a statement to Forbes 160 members of the Florida National Guard stationed at a training center in western Ukraine will be repositioned “elsewhere in Europe” (the withdrawal was first reported by Reuters).

About 80 U.S. Army Special Forces troops also stationed at the training center will remain in the country, officials told the New York Times.

Earlier on Saturday, the U.S. ordered most of its embassy staff in Kyiv to evacuate “due to the continued threat of Russian military action.”

U.K. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said he was withdrawing about 30 U.K. troops deployed to train Ukrainian forces in the use of anti-tank missiles the U.K. has supplied, along with approximately 100 other military personnel helping with wider training efforts.

Heappey said in an interview with BBC there will be “no British troops in Ukraine if there is to be a conflict there,” adding they will be leaving the country over the course of the weekend.

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