UK PM to call Putin and visit region amid Ukraine crisis
to build momentum for sanctions against Russia and support for Ukraine.
The defence secretary told the BBC there was still "a chance" that a Russian invasion could be halted, but added: "I'm not optimistic." Since then, several central and eastern European countries, which used to be part of the Soviet Union or its sphere of influence, have joined Nato. Four of them - Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - have borders with Russia.
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