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Russian pullout meets UK scepticism, Ukraine defence website still hacked
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MOSCOW, 17 February 2022, (TON): Russia said more of its forces surrounding Ukraine were withdrawing but Britain joined the United States in saying it had yet to be convinced the pullout was real.
In Ukraine, the defence ministry said “its web portal had been hit by an unprecedented cyberattack that was into its second day.”
The Russian defence ministry published a video that it said showed tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery units leaving the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.
Their deployment was part of a huge build-up of Russian forces to the north, east and south of Ukraine since November that had prompted London and Washington to warn in recent days that a Russian invasion looked imminent.
Russia mocked those warnings as hysterical war propaganda when it announced on Tuesday that some units were starting to return to base after completing exercises.
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