urged his western partners to act. translation: our partners need to be effective, notjust in words - _ what is important is notjust information about what russia can do, or what the world would do in this case. without the abstract, they cannot get away with it, but naming specific sanctions, measures that the whole world is prepared to take. there's some important considerations though. moscow annexed crimea in 2014. when they invaded, they faced little resistance from ukraine's military. eight years later — ukraine is much better equipped. in 2014, ukraine reportedly had 130,000 military personnel and a million reservists. that's now doubled. currently there are around 255,000 active military personnel and another 900,000 reservists. but this is still far fewer than russia, which has three million at its disposal,