Tensions over Ukraine come as relations between Russia and NATO are at an all-time low
Russian President Vladimir Putin once floated the prospect of his country joining NATO.
MOSCOW â A Russian military buildup near Ukraine has raised fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow might invade its neighbor.
The tensions over Ukraine come amid a new low in relations between Russia and NATO, which once were so warm that President Vladimir Putin even floated the prospect of his country joining the military alliance.
A look at Russia-NATO ties:
Cold War and communism's collapse
For decades throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies in Central and Eastern Europe were locked in a tense standoff with NATO.That confrontation eased in the 1980s when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev moved to reform the Soviet Union and encouraged democratic
