President Putin is desperately redeploying thousands of Russian troops to southern Ukraine to stave off a humiliating defeat, moving troops from the Donbas to bolster a force that has been split precariously across two banks of the wide Dnipro river.
The reinforcements bring the total Russian force in the area to more than 25,000 troops, a Ukrainian reconnaissance and intelligence team told The Times, adding that nine Russian battle groups, each between 500 and 800 men, had been moved there from the Donbas and Crimea.
“Sadly Boris Johnson didn’t give us the longer-range missiles we needed to hit them on the road,” grinned Sergeant “Hulk”, 47, the goliath commander of a 28th Mechanised Brigade intelligence squad. “But we have a surprise in store for
