RUSSIA has deployed 20 warships off the coast of Ukraine and a reported 1,000 elite paratroopers to the border amid fears he's planning a lightning strike invasion to seize Kiev.
Vladimir Putin has already massed 127,000 troops on the frontier with Eastern Ukraine - with a Russian incursion threatening to trigger World War Three.
Putin deployed the latest fleet of warships to the Black Sea from the Crimean ports of Sevastopol and Novorossiysk for the second time in three days.
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Putin deploys 20 warships and 1,000 elite paratroopers to Ukraine border as he ‘plots lightning strike on Kiev’
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