Russia must pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border as a first step to start dialogue over the crisis there, NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on April 10. Rasmussen said some 40,000 Russian troops were massed along Ukraine's borders "not training but ready for combat."
Reuters: NATO’s Rasmussen says Russia must pull back troops if it wants dialogue
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2014. NATO's chief Rasmussen said on March 19 that Russia's \"aggression\" in Ukraine posed the most serious threat to European security since the end of the Cold War and warned Moscow would face international isolation.
