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KYIV, Ukraine - NATO allies accused Russia of misleading the world and disseminating "disinformation" by saying it was returning some troops to bases, charging that Moscow has instead added as many as 7,000 more troops near its tense border with Ukraine.With Western fears high that Russia is planning to invade, tensions also spiked Thursday along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country's east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.After a handful of positive signals from Russia that lowered the temperature in the crisis earlier in the week, the pendulum appeared to be swinging in the opposite direction again. With an estimated 150,000-plus troops massed near Ukraine, the Kremlin offered to keep pursuing diplomatic solutions — an overture the NATO chief welcomed, even as he and others warned that the U.S.-led alliance has still seen no sign of the military withdrawal that Moscow announced."We have seen the opposite of some of the statements.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks to the media during a joint press conference with Danish Prime Minister. (Photo by Michele Tantussi/Getty Images) More NATO troops headed to Eastern Europe and some nations worked to move their citizens and diplomats out of Ukraine on Monday, as Germany’s chancellor made a last-ditch attempt to head off a feared Russian invasion that some warn could be just days away.With the world already on high alert, U.K.

British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said on Thursday that there is very credible intelligence that Islamic State militants are planning an attack on those gathering at Kabul airport in an attempt to flee Afghanistan.

A team of 3,000 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists are to join the the coronavirus response.