Perception of threat from Russia in Ukraine 2021
The presence of 100 thousand troops from Russia near its border with Ukraine was reported by Ukrainian and Western officials in November 2021. The following month, the Russian government demanded a binding guarantee from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that the bloc would not expand to Ukraine. In a survey conducted at the end of 2021, nearly 60 percent of Ukrainians favored their country's NATO accession.