[NYPOST] ​The Kremlin said Wednesday it could not reduce the number of Russian forces along the country’s border with Ukraine because the Kiev government is carrying out its own military buildup."Russia cannot take any measures to de-escalate," front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds. "We have seen the messages that more than 120,000 [Ukrainian] troops have been deployed to the conflict zone. This raises our fears that sentiments [in Ukraine] in favor of a military solution to the Donbass problem could prevail."
Earlier Wednesday, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of ​moving 125,000 troops — which she described as "half of the entire Ukrainian army" — to the eastern Donbass region of the country, where government forces have been fighting Russia-backed separatists since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.​