Russia could achieve Ukraine incursion in 3-5 days - NATO general

[amandabeech]

12. The Russian military isn't what it was at the height of the cold war, certainly,

but it has received more funding in the past 3-5 years, so it has improved some from the '90s, when Russia was in deep financial trouble.

From what I've read, though, Ukraine's military is much smaller than Russia's and is in really bad shape, probably due to the fact that Ukraine's economy is in really bad shape and there has been very little money to keep up the military. As we all know here, a military is very expensive to maintain.

At this point, Russia probably would not have any trouble with Ukraine in the field, but Russia would probably face a guerrilla movement if it stayed for any length of time in Ukraine.