Both Ukraine and Russia are escalating military activity along the Crimean border, as tensions between the two nations—largely stoked by the West—mount once again.

On Thursday, a Ukrainian spokesman said that in recent days, there has been “a strengthening of the [Russian] units that are at the border.”

Meanwhile, in response to Russian claims that the Ukrainian government was plotting terrorist attacks inside Crimea, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday ordered “all military units near Crimea and the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region to be at the highest level of combat readiness,” RT reports.

The Ukrainian security forces at the border with Crimea are ready “for any turn of events,” Ukrainian border guard spokesman Oleg Slobodyan told journalists at a press briefing.

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And the Kremlin said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting with his Security Council to discuss additional security measures and tightening border controls in Crimea.

“There may be escalation in eastern Ukraine and that is very dangerous,” Alexei Makarkin, deputy head of the Moscow-based Center for Political Technologies, told Bloomberg on Thursday. “The events are developing according to a pretty negative scenario. Neither side has any trust in the other.”

Unsurprisingly, voices in the West pinned blame for the recent escalation on Russia.