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Ukraine's military is 980,000 soldiers strong, Zelensky says (kyivindependent.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

@Cephalotrocity The largest army in Europe that's not Russian. But hopefully that can be fixed too.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Somebody is lobbying for an EU Army I see.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@MrMakabar I wasn't implying this, but now that you took this into discussion... hmm...

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

The US military has a 1.328million soldiers. So no European country will build up such a force, if they are not at war. France or Turkey would be next in line with 270000 or 355000 soldiers. I am pretty sure that Ukraine will still have a larger force for some time after the war, just to make sure Russia does not do something stupid.