{"id":13592,"date":"2021-05-12T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13592"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:34:28","slug":"about-100-thousand-russian-soldiers-remain-at-the-borders-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13592","title":{"rendered":"About 100 Thousand Russian Soldiers Remain at the Borders of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ukrainian security <a href=\"https:\/\/ssu.gov.ua\/en\">service <\/a>estimates the number of Russian armed forces stationed near the Ukrainian border at about 100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 12, 2021 \u2013 Ukraine News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov, speaking at a meeting on the security issue, said that he announced this assessment on Tuesday, May 11, at the Ukraine 30. Country Security forum. According to him, &#8220;tanks, aircraft, warships, helicopters, battalion tactical groups and groups of missile forces and artillery are concentrated near the borders of Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of the SBU drew attention to the fact that currently, two-thirds of the length of the Ukrainian border remains vulnerable. But the rest of the border &#8211; in the western direction &#8211; also requires special attention, Bakanov added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia at the beginning of spring sent about 120 thousand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11466\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11466\">soldiers <\/a>and officers to the annexed Crimea and to the border with Donbas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This aroused in the West and in Ukraine itself, suspicions of the beginning of preparations for the war,&nbsp; writes&nbsp; &#8220;Deutsche Welle&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine&#8217;s Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said that his country would be even more energetic in seeking NATO membership. The Russian Ministry of Defense explained the transfer of troops as a reaction to &#8220;threatening actions&#8221; of the North Atlantic Alliance and the need to check the combat readiness of the Russian army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13207\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13207\">80,000 Russian Soldiers Remain on the Border with Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian security service estimates the number of Russian armed forces stationed near the Ukrainian border at about 100,000. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 12, 2021 \u2013 Ukraine News The head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov, speaking at a meeting on the security issue, said that he announced this assessment on Tuesday, May 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6344,6345,813,6346,2399,1000],"class_list":["post-13592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-borders-of-ukraine","tag-remain","tag-russia","tag-russian-soldiers","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13594,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592\/revisions\/13594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}