Faced with Moscow, which is massing troops on the Ukrainian borders, Kiev relies on an army that is certainly modernized but still too … Soviet.
By Marc Nexon Published on 04/15/2021 at 7:00 a.m.
– «Un combat training exercise. This is the term used by Moscow to describe the gigantic concentration of troops carried out over the past three weeks on the borders of Ukraine. That is 40,000 men ready to enter the Donbass region at any time and 40,000 others capable of leading an incursion into the ports of the Sea of Azov from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed in February 2014. Not to mention the rest: the delivery of thousands of tanks, but also Bouk surface-to-air missiles, one of which shot down, in 2014 over Ukraine, the Boeing 777 of … –
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