Posted on 05/02/2015 4:12:16 AM PDT by Fennie
The remarks were made by Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Andriy Taranov.
Russian army specialists are training a militant army of 50,000 men in the parts of Ukraine's Donbas territories where the government has lost control, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Andriy Taranov said on Friday, Radio Liberty reports.
"According to information we have, on the uncontrolled territories of almost 50,000 armed men, which is being formed into military units and trained by Russian specialists," Taranov said.
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Zakharchenko said two weeks ago that he had 22,000 in the regular “Donetsk Army”, and 30,000 reservists.
Add to that the numbers from Lugansk.
“Militant Army”
is there another kind?
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