There are no signs of a Russian troop withdrawal from the Ukrainian border according to the NATO Secretary-General and new US satellite images.<br /><br />Anders Fogh Rasmussen is adamant, despite President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a pullback, and new pictures appear to back up his claims.<br /><br />The US Mission to NATO presents them as showing Russia’s armoured vehicles and helicopters positioned by the border.<br /><br />With a satellite image from March 2014 and the latest positions from May placed side by side, there does not appear to be any visible indication of a withdrawal.<br /><br />Yet last week Russia’s President Putin, who marked the Soviet victory in World War Two with a show of military might in Moscow, had announced he was pulling forces back. <br /><br />NATO believes Russia has massed some 40,000 troops on its border with Ukraine.
