The G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the High Representative of the Union expressed deep concern on Monday evening 12 April about the “large” ongoing build-up of Russian military forces on Ukraine’s borders and in Crimea, considering that such large-scale troop movements “without prior notification” represent “threatening and destabilising activities”. There are reportedly more than 40,000 soldiers.