ALARMING footage shows over 200 Russian tanks and rocket launchers rolling to the Ukraine border.
It comes as earlier today loud explosions rocked the rebel-held eastern region of the country.
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Fears of an imminent invasion have been mounting amid broiling tensions in the region.
Worrying footage shared on social media shows military vehicles travelling through Bershakovo, around six miles from the border.
Ten explosions have been heard during shelling across Donetsk while shelling has been reported across the region.
Two Ukrainian soldiers being killed, and loud explosions were heard throughout the Donbas.
At least one car bomb was detonated in the eastern city of Donetsk overnight.
According to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 591 ceasefire violations and 553 explosions have been recorded in Donetsk and 975 ceasefire violations and 860 explosions in Luhansk.
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It follows as earlier today the Russian President oversaw strategic nuclear exercises involving the launch of hypersonic ballistic missiles and other weapons.
Two ballistic missiles were launched – one from a site in northwest Russia and the second from a submarine in the Barents Sea – and hit targets thousands of miles away, according to the Kremlin.
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The drills involved launches from warships, submarines, and warplanes as well as from land.
The Kremlin has denied the war games mark a military escalation and insisted they are part of a regular training process.
Putin is feared to be massing a force of up to 200,000 soldiers, supported by tanks, artillery and armoured vehicles on the edge of the former Soviet state.
He is reportedly planning to drop a 44-ton “Father Of All Bombs”– that was allegedly used in Syria- as part of his “shock and awe” campaign.
The bomb will be dropped to mark the beginning of the war and break the Ukrainians’ spirit, it has been claimed.
NATO has previously warned Putin is ready for a full-fledged attack against Ukraine with chief Jens Stoltenberg saying: “Every indication indicates that Russia is planning a full-fledged attack against Ukraine.
“We all agree that the risk of an attack is very high.”
Boris Johnson today warned that Russia is planning the “biggest war in Europe since 1945” and fears that an invasion of Ukraine may already be “in motion.”
The PM also warned Putin that he faces decades of “bloodshed and misery” if his troops invade Ukraine.
Meanwhile, US President Biden said he is convinced that Putin has decided to invade Ukraine.
Biden said that the invasion would come in the next week or days – but left the door open for a diplomatic resolution.
“Russia has a choice between war and all the suffering it will bring or diplomacy that will make a future for everyone,” Biden said at the White House Friday.
Western intelligence officials have repeatedly suggested that Vlad could use a “false flag” – a staged attack or threat to give them an excuse to invade.
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