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by guerrilla 1612 days ago
I don't know where you're getting your information, all of Western news has agreed on approximately 100,000 until recent movements.
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Yes, I'm talking about the recent movements (North of Ukraine, from the eastern MD mostly). Which are of course extremely uncertain. And all that is seen is obviously trains with vehicles, not troops - so reports of e.g. "100k troops" are referring to (I'm assuming) the number of vehcicles, whether or not the troops have arrived or not, as they arrive later than the vehciles on the train. Keeping people fed and housed when waiting is a lot harder and more expensive than keeping tanks and APCs parked.
Yeah, definitely. My original point was about before the recent movements though (I exaggerated by saying "yesterday".) Everyone was squawking about 100k as if it were new.