Russia has “probably has massed between 169,000-190,000 personnel in and near Ukraine as compared with about 100,000 on Jan. 30,” Michael Carpenter, the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said Friday.
Highlights
- Russia has “probably has massed between 169,000-190,000 personnel in and near Ukraine as compared with about 100,000 on Jan.
- 30,” US ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says.
- This estimate includes military troops along the border, in Belarus, and in occupied Crimea.
- Russia has publicized its large-scale naval exercises in the Black Sea, Baltic Sea and the Arctic, Carpenter says.
- The steps he recommends the Russians fulfill in order to “reduce risk of miscalculation and lower tensions” include checking for all military activities associated with its deployments in the vicinity of Ukraine and other nearby neighbors.