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Vladimir Putin's maneuvers around Ukraine have given rise to a very abundant military-diplomatic literature since December.
To believe that all the newspapers and think-tanks on the planet have their own analysis of what the Russian president is looking for and preparing.
Let's sort it out a bit.
A figure of Vladimir Putin serves as a target for shooting practice on the Donbass front, Ukraine.
ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP
Putin's maneuvers
Deployment.
Russia is moving its pawns at a pace and with a magnitude rarely seen.
After massed troops and heavy equipment facing the secessionist Donbass and north of Karkhiv, it convoyed imposing forces from its positions in the Far East to Belarus, and others to Crimea, officially in both cases to exercises".
According to the calculations of the British newspaper
The Guardian
, there are 60 tactical battalions mobilized, more than a third of the entire Russian army, which has some 900,000 men.
Added to this is the whole panoply of tanks, artillery, elite troops, aviation and missiles (Iskander), as well as…
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