How big is Russia’s military build-up around Ukraine?
It is the biggest concentration of firepower in Europe since the cold war
THE CRISIS on the Russia-Ukraine border continues to simmer. On February 5th American officials warned that Russia had gathered 70% of the forces that would be necessary for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A war “could happen as soon as tomorrow”, warned Jake Sullivan, America’s national security adviser, a day later. Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, visited Moscow on February 7th as part of a diplomatic blitz to stop it. But how large and unusual is Russia’s build-up?
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