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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announces that over 40,000 Russian regular troops and Russian-backed military forces are now deployed in occupied areas in Ukraine, according to Fox News.
"We have a very well-coordinated exchange of intelligence data with NATO, with the U.S., with our European partners. Today we have more than 3,000 regular Russian troops on my territory, plus the Russian-operated proxies – all together more than 40,000," Poroshenko told Fox News in an exclusive interview amid his working visit to Washington, D.C., on June 20.
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"And we have more [Russian] tanks, more multi-rocket launch systems, more artillery on this occupied territory than the Bundeswehr in Germany," he added.