It
has been reported that Russia has nearly doubled the number of its
battalions near the Ukrainian border, as reported by Western officials
on Monday, and could respond to the Kiev government’s gains there by
launching a cross-border incursion with little or no warning.
During
the past several weeks, Russia has actually built up 17 battalions —
totaling 19,000 to 21,000 troops, according to one Western estimate —
into a battle-ready force of infantry, armor, artillery and air defense
just a few miles of the border.
Plus,
it has vastly expanded its firepower, ever increasing the number of
advanced surface-to-air missile units to 14 from eight, and deploying
more than 30 artillery batteries, according to the officials.
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