Nato fears further Russian threats

Nato’s top military commander said Russia had a large force on Ukraine’s eastern border and that he was worried it could pose a threat to Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria region.

The warning comes a day after Russian troops seized the last military facilities under Ukrainian control in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsular that Russian president Vladimir Putin formally annexed on Friday.

“The [Russian] force that is at the Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizeable and very, very ready,” said Nato’s supreme allied commander of Europe, US Air Force general Philip Breedlove.