Ukraine troop deployments Russia has positioned some 76 Battalion Tactical Groups – out of a total of 168 BTGs – plus support elements around Ukraine’s borders Extent of Soviet Union/ Warsaw Pact until 1991 NATO countries in 1999 NATO expansion Aspirant NATO members 76 Battalion Tactical Groups: Army units, average 800 personnel. Include mechanised infantry, tank brigades, artillery, anti-aircraft defence systems. Support units average 200 personnel BTG troops: 46,400. Support personnel: 11,600 Donbas region (Russian troops and separatists): 42,000 Total Russian troops around Ukraine’s border, in Belarus and Donbas: 100,000 UK NORTH SEA Paris FRANCE GERMANY Ramstein Air Base EPAA control centre AUSTRIA ITALY Rome MEDITERRANEAN SEA BOSNIA GREECE Athens Berlin CZECH REP. SLOVAKIA HUNGARY ROMANIA Deveselu Bucharest Sofia BULGARIA Redzikowo Under construction Warsaw POLAND KALININGRAD LATVIA LITHUANIA BELARUS Minsk 18 Brestsky Lviv UKRAINE Kyiv Kharkiv Lukansk Donbas Donetsk Odessa Sevastopol 10 Crimea Annexed by Russia in 2014 HQ of Black Sea Fleet BLACK SEA Istanbul TURKEY Kürecik Radar Station Part of NATO’s EPAA ESTONIA RUSSIA Moscow 7 Yelnya – Includes Iskander missile battalion 3 Rozhny, Klintsy – Motorised Rifles 2 Postoyalye Dvory 16 Voronezh 6 Pogonovo Includes Iskander and BUK anti-air missile battalions 1 Volgograd 12 Novocherkassk 2 Krasnodar Krai GEORGIA 1 2 3 4 5 6 Black Sea Fleet Led by flagship guided missile cruiser Moskva 1 Missile frigates: 5 Corvettes: 7 Kilo-class submarines: 6 Amphibious landing craft: 7 Amphibious craft capable of carrying up to 2,300 troops and 100 main battle tanks Iskander cruise missile: Range of 500km. Satellite images show Iskander missiles at Osipovichi training area in Brestsky, Belarus Two S-400 missile systems in Belarus European Phased Adaptive Approach: EPAA is NATO’s missile defence system against intermediate-range ballistic missiles. It consists of two Aegis Ashore missile systems in Poland and Romania, radar located in Turkey and command centre in Germany. President Vladimir Putin (above) claims U.S. and NATO could use Aegis Ashore bases to attack Russia with Tomahawk cruise missiles 1-4 NATO Response Force: 4,600-plus NRF combat-ready troops in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, led by UK, Canada, Germany, U.S. 5 Mons-based command centre of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe 6 Very High Readiness Joint Task Force: Core unit of 40,000-strong NRF. French-led VJTF incorporates army, air force, navy and special forces. Response time reduced to 72 hours Russian S-400 Triumf air defence missile system BUK-M1 surface-to-air missile system R-500 Iskander cruise missile system Sources: Bloomberg, Benning Army, Janes, NATO, Rochan Consulting, U.S. Air Force Magazine Pictures: Getty Images, Lockheed Martin © GRAPHIC NEWS