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Originally Posted by Chris
That’s not saying the same thing at all.
In the guardian item from February, Russia’s invasion force assembly on the Ukrainian border is 70% complete. Today, the US’s assessment is that Russia has deployed 70-75% of its entire functional military strength to Ukraine. Lying behind that statistic is the emerging truth that just because Russia claims to have a million men in uniform and a gazillion tanks, it does not follow that all of them are in any fit state to go to war.
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OK let's go with repots after the invasion then and before todays "breaking news"
I could probably find ealrier assessments but can't be bothered. Anyone actually following it will have seen them.
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March 17, 2022 10:30 AM
An unidentified U.S. “senior defense official” offered another briefing yesterday and made an eye-popping assessment of how much of Russia’s overall military is devoted to the invasion of Ukraine:
We haven’t seen any indications that anything is moving right now outside of what they have already in Ukraine. But we know they said that they are suffering losses everyday losses of people, losses of equipment, losses of aircraft. And so, it certainly stands to reason that they would want to be exploring options to replenish those losses. Again, just haven’t seen an indication.
And as for, you know, how much of his total military that he has dedicated to this fight? We would estimate it’s around 75 percent of his total military committed to the fight in Ukraine.
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My bold but shows it is not a new assessment.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ry-to-ukraine/
BTW, this is different from this report on 28th Feb.
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Earlier on Monday a senior US defense official said that it is their assessment Russia has committed nearly 75% of its military power that it had arrayed around Ukraine ahead of the invasion.
The official said they were concerned with the “risks that come with a lack of Russian progress” especially the “use of rockets today and tube artillery — in Kyiv and Kharkiv — which risks being far more indiscriminate.”
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https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-...7ad4b355aec8b9