Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – Kiev – February 3, 2022 – Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced at a press briefing that the number of the Russian military ground battalion around the borders of Ukraine, including Belarus, as well as in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, is about 115 thousand Russian soldiers on the border of Ukraine.
“At the moment, we are monitoring Russian units numbering about 115 thousand land elements, including the territory of Belarus, the areas around the Russian Federation, the temporarily occupied territories of ORDLO and the Crimea,” he said.
In addition, Reznikov reminded that six Russian landing ships of the Northern Baltic Fleet continue to cross the Mediterranean and, according to him, should enter the Syrian port of Tartus. He did not rule out that these ships would use another route towards the Black Sea.
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Russia also continues to militarize the temporarily occupied Crimea, but the formation of strike groups ready to attack there was not observed.