Nope..to occupy something the size of Ukraine you need what?.. around 500-700k troops give or take..if you need to keep the occupation
The more realistic scenario would be to close E Ukraine, which in itself would be very hard due to terrain and would anyway require somewhere around 100-150 thousand troops. How much does that cost and for how long?
Hell, Russia doesn't even have that many combat ready troops in the first place and would need to draw from other theaters or from B divisions, in consequence weakening other areas (hello Caucasus)
^^ That would be without taking in to account the Ukrainian desire to fight it out and the Wests reaction which would sanction Russia in to the ground in such an event.
There's also the obvious which gets ignored: despite being completely unfit to fight, riddled with moles and in a decaying state, the UA didn't collapse last summer, and is improving as we speak
If, the Russian really trying to go an invade Ukraine, the probable action would be DRIVE INTO Kiev and maybe topple the government and get a regime change, if they are deciding to do that, they would only need about 150-200k troops.
Russia currently have about 40K in that border region for "exercise" and rumor has it that they are actually going home for Christmas. And probably less than 10K remaining after maybe a week. So there are in no way, shape or form that Russian have enough number to do anything except helping the rebel.
Ukrainian, on the other hand, start from shit. At the start of the whole thing, not more than 1 brigade (realistically 1600-2500 men) are combat ready, Those are the carry over from Ukrainian NATO Training Mission in Iraq, and they are not really that proficiency as well as the NTM-I finished in 2008 (6 years ago)
I am actually surprise to see the Ukrainian Force can hold on to Rebel/Russian Onslaught, and most of them are militiamen
If Russian cant finish them last summer, there are virtually no chance they can do anything now, Russian position got weaker and Ukrainian Force position is getting stronger
8.4 Trillions of rubles I just heard.
umm, that's about 100 billions dollars.. given 1 USD = 80 Rouble..
If that's true, then there are no way Russian can hold on supplying the rebel for maybe more than 6 months
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Oh really, and how would you know? Have you conducted a poll?
why are you going all serious with superboy?? lol
Listen to what he said, then laugh a little, that's how I dealt with him. lol, You never gone serious with your fart cushion
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