The Russian side sent T-80U tanks to the Ukrainian border, investigators learned.

The Russian Federation sent additional forces of the Guards Tank Army to the Ukrainian border, CIT found out / illustrative photo REUTERS

The Russian Federation deployed additional forces of the 1st Guards Tank Army to the border with Ukraine .

The Russian Federation sent T-80U tanks of the 4th Guards Tank Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army to the Ukrainian border, according to the Telegram channel of investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team.

According to them, the tanks were spotted on trains in Belgorod and Veselaia Lopan in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, 15 km from the border with the Ukrainian state. 

“…At first we assumed that they arrived there from near Voronezh, but after checking the railway databases, it turned out that the echelons followed from the Selyatino and Kubinka-2 stations of the Moscow Region, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe permanent deployment of the 4th Guards Tank Division …” – noted in the message.READ ALSO:

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The investigators noted that this indicates the transfer to the border of additional equipment of the 1st Guards Tank Army, in addition to the one that was already at the training ground near Voronezh.

Russia sent additional forces of the Guards Tank Army to the Ukrainian border, CIT found out / collage from screenshots from the video t.me/CITeam

Recall that in early February, CIT reported that the Russian Federation had deployed the equipment of the National Guard Troops , in particular, armored personnel carriers, to the south and west of the state.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine – briefly about what you should know today

The Russian Federation went on aggression against the Ukrainian state in 2014 – it seized Crimea and invaded part of the Donbass. Western countries punished Russia for aggression – they imposed sanctions.

Last autumn, the Russian side aggravated the situation on the border of Ukraine, and in our state, as well as in the West, they started talking about a possible invasion.

At the beginning of 2022, on February 10,  the active phase of Russian-Belarusian military exercises began in Belarus . The exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus should end on the 20th of this month.

Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov said that 140,000 servicemen are stationed along the border of the Ukrainian state, both from the Russian Federation and Belarus, and from the occupied territories.

Earlier, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine claimed that  there would not be enough Russian troops near our border to carry out a full-scale invasion .

The European Union and the United States promised that in the event of a new invasion of Ukraine, serious sanctions would be imposed against Russia.

(C)UNIAN 2022