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Growing fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine have prompted the US and UK to pull the families of staff at their embassies in Kyiv out of the country. Moscow\\u2019s forces have been amassing on Ukraine\\u2019s border for months prompting fears of a major escalation in a war that\\u2019s been underway since Russia\\u2019s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Vladimir Putin says the Russian and Ukrainian populations are 'one people' and has blamed Nato\\u2019s expansion east for rising tensions. Joe Biden has warned Russia that an invasion of Ukraine would result in severe consequences for the Kremlin. So how likely is full-scale war? What is President Putin's strategy? And what is the likely end-game?

Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of experts.\\nProducers: Junaid Ahmed and Paul Schuster.