Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said on Wednesday that the Pentagon “considers additional Russian troops moving” in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. CNN.
Pentagon spokesman John KirbyPhoto: Nicholas Gum / AFP / Profimedia Images
Kirby said the Pentagon could not confirm details of the number of Russian troops moving to the two regions, “what are the systems, what are the capabilities”, but the Pentagon believes the Russian troops are moving.
“We can’t confirm the numbers and shapes, the capabilities very accurately, but we’re sure it’s going to happen,” Kirby said.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Russia’s military presence on the Ukrainian border was “ready to strike at any moment.”
Kirby stressed that if Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to fully occupy Ukraine, it will be an “elective war” and “not without blood.”
“It’s going to be a pain,” Kirby added. “It simply came to our notice then. And all this must be put at his feet. Because he does it willingly. “
Kirby said there were no signs that Russia was ready to ease the conflict, while the Pentagon saw the opposite.
“According to the information available to us, Putin is moving additional troops and tanks to the occupied territories of Donbass,” Latvian Prime Minister Order Krizanis Karis told CNN on Wednesday.
Earlier, a Reuters witness said Two separate unidentified military supplies were heading towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on different roads in the direction of the Russian border.
One convoy consisted of nine tanks and an infantry fighting vehicle, the other with trucks and fuel tanks, a reporter in the territory of two Russian-backed rebel-held territories recognized independently from Moscow on Monday said.
At the same time, a senior U.S. defense official said that Russia has concentrated almost 100% of its forces in positions necessary for invasion.
“It simply came to our notice then. I said any day, today is definitely the day, “said a U.S. defense official, who did not anticipate an invasion on Wednesday.
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