# Russian troops have arrived in Belarus today for snap military drills. AFP reports more than a week of negotiations between Russia and the West have done little to ease worries raised by the massing of tens of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders. Adding to the tensions, Russia and Ukraine’s neighbour, Belarus, launched a wave of military exercises, with a video published by the Belarusian defence ministry showing columns of military vehicles, including tanks, being unloaded from trains blanketed in snow.