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Russia concentrates more than 420,000 troops in the temporarily occupied territories in Ukraineparticularly in Crimeaaccording to statements by the deputy head of the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Vadim Skibitskywhich is reported today by the Ukrainian media.
“The Russian Federation has concentrated more than 420,000 troops in our temporarily occupied territories and on the peninsula of Crimea. This without counting the Russian Guardother structures, special units and security forces of the Russian Federation that guarantee the occupation power in our territories“, he pointed.
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Skibitski, who made these statements during the annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) in Kyivstressed that Russia maintains a very powerful contingent in Ukrainewhich includes a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery systems, multiple rocket launcher systems and missile systems.
However, despite the large number of occupiers, in more than a year and a half since the beginning of the large-scale aggression, he added, the Russian Federation has not been able to achieve its strategic objective of completely occupying Ukraine.
For this reason, Russia has changed its objectives and is now seeking to take over all of the regions of Lugansk and Donetskhe added.
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He specified that the Russian forces are now carrying out active military operations in two directions –Kupiansk–Liman and Marinka-Donetsk-, “to complete at least part of the task and fully reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions”.
Source: Elcomercio
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