Russian troop numbers near Ukraine

Around 100,000 Russian troops are near the border with Ukraine in preparation for what Western officials fear could be an invasion


Baltic Sea
RUS. 
POLAND
LATVIA 
LITHUANIA
BELARUS
Klintsy
Kiev
UKRAINE 
Dnieper River
Luhansk 
Donetsk
MOLDOVA 
ROMANIA
Black Sea
BULGARIA
Yelnya
RUSSIA 
Moscow
Soloti
Pochep
Pogonovo
Boguchar 
Volgograd
Persianovskiy 
Rostov
Korenovsk
Crimea
GEORGIA
200km 125 miles

25,000 troops 
5,000
1,000

Tanks
Armoured vehicles
Artillery 

Other military or air installations 
Crimea – annexed by Russia in 2014
Donbas – territory controlled by pro-Russian se paratists


Sources: Reuters, The New York Times
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