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albacore

(2,561 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 08:07 PM Mar 2020

Ukraine...

I can find this nowhere else, and the source is a little sketchy, but has anybody heard of this buildup occurring?

"Russia deployed nearly 90,000 troops, 1,100 tanks, 2,500 armored fighting vehicles, 1,600 artillery and missile systems, 340 combat aircraft and other weapons and equipment on the border with Ukraine.
"In total, about 87,000-90,000 servicepersons (in particular, more than 35,000 members of the 1st and the 2nd army corps) of the Armed Forces of Russia are stationed along the state border of Ukraine in the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk, Luhansk regions and Crimea. There are also 1,100 tanks, 2,500 armored fighting vehicles, 1,600 artillery and missile systems, 340 combat aircraft, 240 combat helicopters, more than 50 ships/boats and 6 submarines,"

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/2888352-russia-pulls-90000-troops-1100-tanks-hundreds-of-planes-to-border-with-ukraine.html

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Ukraine... (Original Post) albacore Mar 2020 OP
This... albacore Mar 2020 #1
But what a My Graine! abqtommy Mar 2020 #4
If this is true, i'm sure it's with bluestarone Mar 2020 #2
A very serious situation, but it doesn't have Hunter Biden involved, panader0 Mar 2020 #3
The troop build up has been there for awhile now. Xolodno Mar 2020 #5

panader0

(25,816 posts)
3. A very serious situation, but it doesn't have Hunter Biden involved,
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 08:54 PM
Mar 2020

so our leader doesn't care. Besides, Putin told spanky to step down.

Xolodno

(6,653 posts)
5. The troop build up has been there for awhile now.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:59 PM
Mar 2020

Ever since they took Crimea its been developing. Russia could literally pour over the border whenever they want. Thus far however, they seem there just to intimidate.

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