LONDON: The rising threat of war between Ukraine and Russia spooked markets and sent investors scurrying for relative safety on Monday, pushing stocks down sharply and lifting gold to a four-month high.
With Russian troops already on Ukrainian soil after an incursion into Crimea, comments over the weekend from President Putin that he had the right to invade the rest of the country were treated as a declaration of war by Kiev.
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