"Powerful Contingent": GUR learned how many soldiers and equipment of the Russian Federation concentrated in Ukraine

In intelligence, they said that in the Russian troops in the occupied territories there are many tanks, armored vehicles, artillery systems, volley fire systems and rocket systems. There are more than 420,000 Russian soldiers in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea.

This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadim Skibitsky at the annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES), Ukrinform reports. "The Russian Federation has concentrated in our temporarily occupied territories and in the Crimean peninsula more than 420 thousand servicemen.

This, if not taken into account by Rosgvardia, other structures, special units, power structures of the Russian Federation providing occupation power in our territories," he said. In numbers, it looks like this: Skibitsky expressed the opinion that despite more than a year and a half, full -scale aggression by Russia, the country has not been able to achieve its strategic goal - the full occupation of the Ukrainian territory. "Then there were other strategic goals.

First of all-the full occupation of Lugansk and Donetsk regions. And now, today, the most active fighting of the Russian Federation is conducting, in fact, in two directions-Kupyansk-Lyman Donetsk, in order to accomplish at least some task and completely enter the administrative borders of Lugansk and Donetsk region, "he added.