{"id":15450,"date":"2020-07-07T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=15450"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:14:58","slug":"ukraine-intelligence-about-russias-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/ukraine-intelligence-about-russias-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine handed over intelligence to OSCE about Russia’s military build-up near its borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine has transferred to the OSCE intelligence about the presence of the Russian troops near its borders, as reported by Ukrinform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian and American experts, as well as the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine warn that under the pretext of the Kavkaz-2020 strategic exercises Russia could launch a large-scale offensive against Ukraine. The Russian president has recently signed a decree on the recalling reserve military personnel from the reserve “for military training”, without specifying any specific date for the training. And this points to the increased likelihood of an offensive: the decree may be an attempt to conceal mass mobilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These facts raise the question: what number of troops is Russia prepared to deploy against Ukraine? How much military hardware does Russia have at its disposal? In general, the answers to these questions were heard on July 1, at the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation.<\/p>\n

As Ukraine is currently chairing this decision-making body of the OSCE, on July 1 the issue of the implementation and modernizing of the Vienna Document 2011<\/strong> on confidence and security building measures was raised. The main speaker from Ukraine was the head of the Main Department of International Cooperation and Verification of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant-General Leonid Holopatyuk. He pointed to the transformation of the occupied territories of Donbas into a \u201cgray zone\u201d, where the OSCE\u2019s arms control regime is not ensured, whereas confidence and security building measures are not being implemented.<\/p>\n

Another destabilizing factor is the militarization of the occupied Crimea. Non-transparency of military exercises in the Russian Armed Forces does not contribute to confidence.<\/p>\n

OCCUPATION CORPS IN THE DONBAS IS BIGGER THAN SOME EUROPEAN ARMIES<\/h2>\n

“The Russian Federation, within the framework of the Global Exchange of Military Information, should provide data on the number of troops, weapons and military equipment of the Russian Armed Forces deployed in Ukraine,” said Holopatyuk. He emphasized the need to develop effective mechanisms for international control over the military activities of the Russian troops deployed in the temporarily occupied territories of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian general noted that today, near the border with Ukraine, Russia has already created three combined arms forces <\/strong>\u00a0“which are capable of carrying out sudden limited-objective offensive operations on the territory of Ukraine without mobilization and with minimal preparation.” This analysis does not take into account the highly militarized Crimean peninsula and the occupied parts of the Donbas, where the army corps deployed by Russia outweigh whole armies of several European countries in terms of personnel and fire power.<\/p>\n

Setting up of a group of Russian occupation forces in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts composed of the 1st (Donetsk) and 2nd (Luhansk) Army Corps (AC) lead to a large increase in the numbers of armaments and military hardware in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The combat structure of the 1st AC includes:<\/p>\n