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Originally Posted by Mick

A senior Pentagon official said Monday that 500 more American troops will be deployed to Europe

The official added that Putin had moved nearly all of his pre-staged troops -- estimated to be over 150,000 -- into Ukraine - AFP News Agency.

Apparently 95% according to most reports.

Tactically it doesn't add up and seems to bolster Putin's opinion that it would be a walkover.

Following hostilities with Russia in 2014, Ukraine increased the size of its armed forces to 204,000 soldiers (+46,000 civil servants), not counting additional forces such as the border guards (53,000), the newly formed National Guard of Ukraine (60,000) or the security service. The current size of Ukraine's armed forces, which consists of 250,000 (215,000 military personnel), makes it the second largest in the region after the Russian Armed Forces. In 2022, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered an increase in the size of the forces by 100,000 by 2025, while ending conscription in 2024. Conscription will be replaced with short-term intensive military training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine