Russia and terrorists have formed in Donbas an army composed of 24,000 to 27,000 Russian troops and local militants.
Director of the Center for Military and Political Studies Dmytro Tymchuk reported this on his Facebook page.
"Russian-terrorist troops have currently completed the formation of four strike groups: Luhansk (the area of Pervomaisk, Luhansk and Stanytsia-Luhanska); Horlivka-Donetsk; Volnovakha-Telmanove; and Novoazovsk. These groups, according to Information Resistance, include about 14,000-15,000 Russian mercenaries and soldiers, as well as 10,000-12,000 fighters from local gangs," he said.
These groups also include 110-115 tanks, 250-280 armored fighting vehicles such as BMPs, BTRs, MT-LBs, as well as 80-100 pieces of conventional artillery and multiple rocket launchers, and 500 vehicles (from Russian army armored KamAZ trucks and fuel-servicing trucks to homemade gun trucks).