In times gone past Ukrainian pensioner Lidiya Silina would take the trash out on the Belarusian side of the border opposite the winding stream. Then the trouble started and the Russian tanks came. But the 87-year-old has a clear idea about who is to blame for the biggest stand-off between the Kremlin and the West in Europe since the Cold War. “The Ukrainians could start something, thanks to the Americans and the British, who brought all their weapons here,” she says in her little wooden hut. In Dobryanka, locals have been hearing about various Russian military drills near Ukraine for much of the past year. Some seem more exhausted than frightened by all the talk of war. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES