The Pentagon estimates that up to 12,000 Russian troops are on the country's border with Ukraine as it continues to deliver heavy weapons to separatist forces within Ukraine, according to Politico Pro.
Russia is building up its combat forces once again along its border with Ukraine and is continuing its deliveries of heavy weapons to pro-Russian fighters there, the Pentagon said today.
Defense Department spokesman Col. Steve Warren said the Pentagon estimates there are 10,000 to 12,000 combat troops inside Russia’s border, representing a "variety of forces" including infantry and mechanized units. The presence is smaller than the roughly 40,000 troops that were on the border earlier in the crisis, but is a spike from the roughly 1,000 troops that were there only a few weeks ago.
"It is intimidating," Warren said, repeating the Pentagon’s call for Russia to withdraw its forces and begin to de-escalate the ongoing Ukraine standoff.
