“The Armed Forces of Ukraine are building up their military force, pulling together heavy equipment and personnel. According to & nbsp; some data, the number of Ukrainian troops in the & nbsp; conflict zone & nbsp; already reaches 125 & nbsp; 000 people, and & nbsp; if anyone & nbsp; does & nbsp; knows, half of the entire composition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; Zakharova said at the & nbsp; briefing.
Earlier, Bloomberg, with & nbsp; citing & nbsp; sources, reported that & nbsp; the United States provided its European partners with intelligence data about & nbsp; that & nbsp; Russia is allegedly building up troops to & nbsp; preparing for & nbsp; rapid and & nbsp; large-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine from & nbsp; nbsp; ; including from & nbsp; Crimea and & nbsp; through & nbsp; Belarus.
A similar material was published by The New York Times. In addition, today the Financial Times wrote that & nbsp; the British army plans to deploy its military equipment in & nbsp; Germany to & nbsp; strengthen NATO in & nbsp; ties with & nbsp; a possible war between Russia and & nbsp; Ukraine. At & nbsp; at the same time, The Wall Street Journal wrote that & nbsp; the United States did not & nbsp; manage to convince a number of European partners that & nbsp; Russia intends to invade & nbsp; Ukraine.
According to & nbsp; FT, Kiev said, that & nbsp; in the & nbsp; north, east and & nbsp; south of Donbass allegedly concentrated about & nbsp; 114 & nbsp; 000 military personnel, mostly Russian-speaking. With & nbsp; on November 7 & nbsp; the press secretary of the Ukrainian president Sergey Nikiforov said that & nbsp; the office of the president of Ukraine does & nbsp; have information about & nbsp; that the Russian army is accumulating forces near the border of the republic. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called such publications stuffing. Russian President Vladimir Putin described such articles as alarmist.