Where Military Forces Are Assembling Around Russia and Ukraine

 

Forces in Eastern Europe and Ukrainian Border

Soldiers, tanks, artillery and air defense are at multiple sites

Sources: Bloomberg; Janes; Russian Defense Ministry; Belarus Defense Ministry; Rochan Consulting; NATO; U.S. Department of Defense; U.K. Ministry of Defense; Ukraine National Institute for Strategic Studies

Note: Locations of closest urban areas to deployments shown on map. Locations in Belarus include drills scheduled Feb 10–20.

Where Military Forces Are Assembling Around Russia and Ukraine

Potential actions by Russia could include causing a provocation in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting for years against separatists backed by Moscow, or attacking the country’s capital, Kyiv, Western officials familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified speaking about such a sensitive topic. They stressed that Putin’s final intentions were not known.