Kyiv: Russia seems to be very closer to Ukraine border, though Russia claims that it has withdrawn the troops from the Ukraine border, satellite images have shown that Russia is just 20km from the Ukraine border.

Russian Parliament has allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army outside the country to support separatists in Ukraine.

Satellite image has collected by Maxar in the last 24 hours shows additional deployment and logistics supplies in Southern Belarus and multiple locations in western Russia near the Ukrainian border.

The new activity includes more than 100 vehicles and dozens of troop tents at a small airfield near Mozyr in southern Belarus. The airfield is located less than 40 kilometres from the Ukraine border.

Russia has placed more than 150,000 troops near Ukraine's borders in recent weeks, the United States and Western allies have estimated, with Washington warning an invasion is imminent.

Several new deployments of troops and equipment have been established in rural areas southwest of Belgorod, less than 20 kilometres to the northwest of the border with Ukraine, NDTV reported.

Heavy equipment transporters (HETs), which are used for transporting tanks, artillery, and heavy equipment were seen approximately 40 kilometres to the east of the border with Ukraine.

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A new field hospital has been added to a military garrison on the western outskirts of Belgorod.

In response, several countries, including the US, have imposed sanctions on Russia. The US is also sending its troops into NATO member nations in Eastern Europe.

Russia denies that it has any plan to attack its western neighbour but is seeking a guarantee that Ukraine will never join NATO and that the Western alliance remove forces from Eastern Europe.