‘Tanks, tanks, tanks’: Russians on the military buildup at Ukraine’s border

Reports say troops and weapons are leaving their bases for forward staging posts in Kursk and Voronezh

The military train lurched into the rail depot at Kursk on a recent afternoon, carrying more snow-dusted main battle tanks, self-propelled artillery, and other heavy weapons to within a few hours' drive by car of the Ukrainian border.

At the depot, the flatbed railcars parked between heavy containers carrying chemical products, leaving them visible only from a small pedestrian footbridge overhead. There, military police with red armbands kept watch as locals looked on curiously at the latest arrivals in Russia's vast military buildup.