“According to our intelligence, this is about 120 thousand units of personnel, that is, military personnel,” she said, answering a question about the number of personnel of the Ukrainian security forces near the line of contact between the parties.
In early December last year, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that, according to some reports, Kiev had sent up to 125,000 troops to the Donbass — half of the Ukrainian army.
On January 24, the DPR announced that they were recording the preparation of the Ukrainian military for active hostilities in the Donbass.
They also noted that the Ukrainian military deployed eight Smerch and Uragan rocket systems with cluster munitions to the Donbass.