Zakharova: Ukraine pulled 125 thousand servicemen into the conflict zone in Donbass pulling half of the Ukrainian army into the conflict zone in Donbass, RIA Novosti reports.
“The Ukrainian armed forces are building up their military force, pulling together heavy equipment and personnel. According to some reports, the number of Ukrainian troops in the conflict zone already reaches 125 thousand people, and this, if anyone does not know, is half of the entire composition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, “Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday, December 1.
In November, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said that Russia plans to attack the republic in late January or early February, for which it has concentrated more than 92,000 troops on the border.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that “any future aggression against Ukraine will have a high price and political and economic consequences for Russia.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow does not harbor any aggressive plans.
“It is absolutely wrong to associate any movements of the RF Armed Forces across the territory of our country with such plans,” he stressed.