U.S. intelligence is warning that Russia is planning a massive military invasion against Ukraine involving some 175-thousand troops as soon as early next year.
The Washington Post reported Saturdaythat an unclassified U.S. intelligence document shows satellite photos of what officials say could be a hundred tactical battalion groupsas well as heavy armor, artillery, and other equipment.
According to a Biden administration official who spoke anonymously, about half of the Russian forces that would be used in an invasion are already near Ukraine's borderand that Russia is moving swiftly to build up a large force of contract military reservists.