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It鈥檚 been another week of meetings, phone calls, and threats of sanctions, as the build-up of tens of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders stokes tensions and fears of an invasion. Russia's President Putin wants an assurance that Russia鈥檚 neighbour will not join the western military alliance, Nato.

The United States has threatened to halt the opening of a key pipeline that would send Russian gas to Western Europe, if Russia invades Ukraine. Nord Stream 2 would run from Russia to Germany.

The western allies are trying to show a united front in the face of the Russian military build-up. But how does it feel to be a representative of the Ukrainian people facing what could be a Russian invasion? Lesia Vasylenko is a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament from the opposition Holos party.

鈥淯krainians have been living with this state of war in the background for seven or eight years now. This is another exercise to install fear in the population of Ukraine鈥� and impact public opinion about joining Nato. But Putin is failing big time.鈥�

鈥淯kraine must become a part of Nato.鈥�

(Pic: Ukrainian service members hold drills in the Lviv region; Credit: Reuters)

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