There are already 140,000 Russian troops on the border of Ukraine with Russia, Belarus and the occupied part of Donbas, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on the air of the Freedom of Speech program on ICTV.

Among them are 119,000 ground troops, as well as air and sea forces.. They are divided into 72 battalion tactical groups, 11 of them are in Belarus.

As of January 28, about 130,000 Russian troops were stationed near the border with Ukraine..

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense is reassuring:

the likelihood of a significant escalation from Russia is assessed as low, since the military of the Russian Federation has not yet formed the strike groups that are necessary for the offensive. According to Reznikov, if strike groups begin to form, the Ukrainian military will notice this and react..

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