With Russian military forces massing in Belarus, a military offensive to encircle Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv now looks like a realistic possibility in the coming weeks. If that attack happens, a Ukrainian border guard post at Senkivka, on Ukraine’s intersecting border with both Belarus and Russia, will likely be one of Moscow’s first targets.
Coffee or Die Magazine’s Nolan Peterson recently visited the Senkivka border crossing and found that, despite the relative calm, Ukrainian border guard troops are on heightened guard against a Russian provocation.