RUSSIA-UKRAINE LATEST: 🔷 U.S. envoy: Russia has up to 190,000 forces, including separatists, menacing Ukraine 🔷 U.S. to sell Poland $6 billion of tanks, more military aid 🔷 Kremlin expresses concern about escalation in Donbas
Share to TwitterThe United States believes Russia now has"probably" as many as 190,000 troops, including Russian-backed separatists forces, according to a U.S. envoy, in and around Ukraine amid fears that Russian capabilities of a full-fledged invasion continue to grow.
The OSCE is a Cold War-era European security forum that has deployed a war monitor in eastern Ukraine for years and hosted talks on the current crisis with Russia. Its foundational documents have been used selectively by Moscow to paint Ukraine and NATO as a threat to Russia's security, even as its envoy in Vienna has largely dismissed dialogue there.
The announcement came as U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw to discuss concerns regarding the massive buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine, which U.S. and NATO officials say position Moscow for an imminent invasion. Poland is a key eastern European ally to the U.S. and a fellow member of NATO.
The planned sale of more military aid to Poland"will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a NATO Ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe," according to the State Department. The defense ministry said in a statement that the drills were"planned" as part of large-scale military exercises currently taking place across Russia. Saturday's drills are meant to check"the preparedness of military commands and crews of missile systems, warships and strategic bombers to accomplish their missions and at verifying the reliability of weapons of strategic nuclear and conventional forces," according to the defense ministry.
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