Russia is waging a hybrid war for which the West is not prepared.
All warning lights are red. All cross-checked information, all sources show that Russian Federation forces have massed troops on each foreseen penetration axis from Kursk to Kharkiv, Rostov to southeast Ukraine and from Crimea to the coastal area.
The estimation ranges from 65,000 to 95,000 soldiers.
The Russian supplied armor in the Donbas alone is estimated to 700 main battle tanks (with an increasing number of T-72 V3 only used by Russia) and 1,100 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR and BMP (with an increasing number of BTR 82). P hotos brought back by drones sent by volunteers groups over the border with Russia show kilometers of Grad rockets crates prepositioned for feeding a huge number of rocket launchers during a high intensity artillery shelling of the positions of defenders inside Ukraine.
Russia is now sending the latest of the available military hardware to its proxies along with 40 identified regular units belonging to its forces as amply demonstrated by the open sources information collcted on social networks like VK, Russia’s Facebook where Russians show themselves shelling Ukrainians, bragging about it and geolocalisation indicate their position when posting.
Many Russian military identification cards and passports have been recovered on corpses.
The Russian Mothers Association has collected the names of thousands of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
Parts of Grad rockets, anti-tank rockets and unexploded missiles, mortar rounds or artillery shells are recovered and show markings clearly pointing to Russia with lot numbers as recent as 2009. During combat, crates of small arms ammunition have been captured as well as anti-tank missiles in their crates with the slip indicating their latest storage location in Russian Federation units.
It is time for Western powers to abandon the politically correct stance and face the threat. Every day without action will make the conflict more costly for the whole of Europe.
Standing up against Vladimir Putin is the only way the war stops before the whole of Europe is set ablaze.
Ukraine is not a beggar. Ukraine fights!
From only 6,000 men with combat readiness one year ago that were not able to oppose the invaders without being quickly annihilated in case of major conflict, the armed forces of Ukraine have grown to a combat ready force that repulsed the so-called separatists in Donbas during June and July 2014, obliging Moscow to engage openly its best forces in August.
Every day that President Petro Poroshenko did not declare a state of war, volunteers and donors forged a battle-ready instrument that resisted the Russian invaders to the point that even Russian officers admit that they underestimated the capacity of Ukraine to defend itself.
Many small companies have produced what the fighters needed in various fields. volunteers have repaired vehicles, companies have offered gasoline, donors from the whole world sent money or equipment.
