Russia is continuing to deploy new troops in Crimea and along the Ukrainian border. There are three new groups that are capable of carrying out sudden offensive operations. In total, 87,000 military personnel with 4,000 armored vehicles and tanks, 1,500 artillery pieces and rocket systems, and 560 military planes and helicopters are now deployed around Ukraine, and this is without the occupied regions in Donetsk and Luhansk as well Moldova’s Transnistria.

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