MSNBC Deadline White House February 23, 2022 21:11:00
Fight and prepared to defend ukraine. >> and you predict that in a ground war, loss of life is likely, can you talk about how many troops we lined up against one another? >> so on one side, the defender side, we're looking at somewhere, this doesn't include the home guard, territorial defense forces, there is likely to be a full mobilization of the population. but in terms of the folks that are likely to be called up, it is somewhere between 450 to 500,000 troops on the ukrainian side, somewhere close to about 200,000 troops on the russian side. so we're talking about 700,000 troops in combat....
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