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Traditional Catholic Faith => World War III - Chapter 2 => Topic started by: RomanCatholic1953 on April 20, 2021, 07:55:31 PM
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EU Walks Back Claim of 150,000 Russian Troops Near Ukraine Border (https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/19/eu-walks-back-claim-of-150000-russian-troops-near-ukraine-border/)
Last week, Ukraine said Russia has 80,000 troops along the border, but how Kyiv determined the numbers is not clear
- The European Union had to correct a claim made by its foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, concerning Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. Borrell told reporters on Monday that there were “over 150,000” (https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-04-19/eu-foreign-ministers-talk-amid-uproar-over-ukraine-navalny) Russian troops near the border. The number was corrected in a transcript of his briefing (https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/96873/informal-video-conference-eu-foreign-affairs-ministers-remarks-high-representativevice_en) on the EU’s website to “over 100,000.”
- Despite the change, it’s still unclear how the EU determined that there are over 100,000 Russian troops near the border. Last week, a spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/steady-increase-russian-troops-crimea-ukraine-border-says-pentagon-n1264546) claimed there were 80,000 troops stationed along the border of Ukraine, with 40,000 of them in Crimea.
- The fact that Russia has troops in Crimea is no surprise. Moscow had a military base in the peninsula even before Crimea joined the Russian Federation in 2014. An alarmist report from the Daily Mail (https://archive.ph/4cOau) published satellite images that it claims show a Russian military build-up at a base in Crimea. But the base is located in southern Crimea, nowhere near the conflict zone in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
Source: news.antiwar.com