Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Viktor Muzhenko has said that, according to some estimates, up to 10,000 Russian servicemen have been deployed in the anti-terrorist operation area in eastern Ukraine.
“There are some 6,000-8,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation there, and according to some estimates, there are up to 10,000 people,” he said at a press briefing on Dec. 16.
Muzhenko said that about 50,000 Russian troops had been deployed along the entirety of the eastern Ukrainian-Russian border.
