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Russia has sent nearly 100% of its border troops to invade Ukraine | Russia |

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Russia has sent nearly 100% of its border troops to invade Ukraine | Russia |

[Epoch Times, March 08, 2022](The Epoch Times reporter Zhang Yujie comprehensive report) The United States estimates that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assembled at the Russian border “almost 100 percent of the time,” a senior U.S. Defense Department official said on Monday (March 7). Hundreds of” troops were sent to Ukraine.

The US “politico” (politico) website reported on March 7 that the proportion of Russian border troops sent to Ukraine was 90% last Thursday (March 3), and increased to 92% and 95% last Friday and Sunday, respectively. .

The U.S. Defense Department official who disclosed the data on Monday declined to provide a specific assessment of Russia’s military strength. He said the U.S. had not yet learned whether Russia would move troops into Ukraine from elsewhere in the country.

He also revealed that from the perspective of the war, the United States has not seen much progress in the Russian military except in southern Ukraine; the White House believes that Russia is actively recruiting Syrians to participate in the war.

The official said Putin was now relying on foreign troops to help him attack Ukraine, something the U.S. sees as cause for concern.

The Wall Street Journal quoted four U.S. officials as saying on March 6 that Russia had recruited Syrians who were good at urban warfare in an attempt to capture the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

It is unclear how many Syrians Russia has recruited, but Syrians have already entered Russia to attack Ukraine, one of the officials said.

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Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based research institute, questioned the combat effectiveness of Syrian soldiers. He said that Syrians in Ukraine do not speak the local language and the environment is completely different.

Late in the night (February 23), the day before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a national address that 200,000 Russian troops had assembled on the Ukrainian border.

Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, Russian troops have carried out military attacks in northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, which were home to two-thirds of Ukraine’s population before the war, and the war has caused a large number of people to flee.

Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and its second-largest city, Kharkiv, remain under the control of the Ukrainian government. Russia has captured the southern port city of Kherson and is attacking other cities.

According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (Dmytro Kuleba) told Ukrainian TV on the evening of March 6, the number of foreign volunteers who joined Ukraine (resisting Russia) has been about 20,000, from 52 different countries. , will join the newly established “International Corps”.

Responsible editor: Li Yuan#

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