Putin has sent “nearly 100 percent” of Russia's forces at the border into Ukraine, a top U.S. defense official said.
The United States assesses that Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent into Ukraine “nearly 100 percent” of the combat forces that were amassed on the border, a senior Defense Department official told reporters on Monday.
“We have not seen any indication that [Putin] is going to go beyond the amassed combat power that he’s already developed,” said the official, who declined to provide an estimate of how many troops constituted Russia’s total force. The official said Washington also is confident that Russia is now actively recruiting Syrian fighters to aid its assault,“We find that noteworthy, that [Putin] believes that he needs to rely on foreign fighters to supplement what is a very significant commitment of combat power inside Ukraine as it is,” the official said.
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