Kiev believes that Russia will need half a million soldiers to “invade” Ukraine

So far, there are no signs that a Russian “invasion” of Ukraine is imminent, said Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, in an interview with Reuters. He also believes that Moscow will need 500-600 thousand soldiers for the success of this “invasion”. Now, according to Kiev’s estimates, there are only 92 thousand Russian servicemen at the border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Danilov stressed that Ukraine is still worried about Russia’s actions, and that after the talks between the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States on December 7, the situation has not changed.

We will remind, earlier it was reported that the Russian court passed a verdict, which spoke about the “Russian troops” in the Donbass. This is about judgment of November 10, 2021… The Kirovsky District Court found the deputy head of the regional department for military nutrition of one of the commercial companies guilty of mediating in bribery to the head of the Center for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Southern Military District with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The verdict cites the words of one of the witnesses, who noted that the official demanded 90 thousand rubles every month in order not to interfere with the supply of food to Russian servicemen in the Donbass.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called this information a mistake. “Probably, we are talking about the mistake of those who wrote this text. Because it is impossible, there were no Russian Armed Forces on the territory of the self-proclaimed republics, ”he assured.

The court said that the verdict is “impersonal” and corresponds to the “original verdict” from the materials of the criminal case and “the testimony of the defendant is given”. “The plot of the accusation and what the court recognizes does not say this,” the court said. And he added that the defendant “showed this – and the transfer.” “We cannot influence his testimony,” they explained in court.