Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk (L) greets NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during their meeting in Kiev August 7, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kravchenko/Pool
KIEV (Reuters) - The head of NATO called on Russia to "step back from the brink" of war by pulling its troops back from the Ukrainian border and warned further intervention in Ukraine would bring it greater isolation in the world.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the U.S.-led alliance's secretary general, made his call on Thursday during a visit to Ukraine in a show of solidarity after NATO warned of a possible invasion by Russia which, it said, had massed 20,000 troops near the frontier.
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