Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is making diplomatic and military preparations for a new invasion of Ukraine in an apparent bid to exert pressure on Kyiv, perhaps even through violence.

“All options are plausible from Putin’s view,” a Baltic official told the Washington Examiner, on condition of anonymity. “The current status quo is not satisfactory for him because he sees that Ukraine is getting stronger, military, [and] … Ukraine is getting more and more [oriented] towards the West.”