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 I was told that a private military company called the Wagner Group has hired a large number of people to carry out cyber-attacks and disruptive operations in Ukraine. I have also received information that a private military company called the Wagner Group has hired a large number of people and is sending them to Ukraine. The purpose is to create an opportunity for the Russian army to invade. They are preparing to invade at any time.&#8221; (Masaki Takabe, former mercenary and military critic)
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The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army is about to finally begin. Professor Itsuro Nakamura of Tsukuba University, who is an expert on Russian politics, said.
 There is a one percent chance that negotiations will be concluded. President Vladimir Putin, 69, has told Western nations that he will not allow NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to expand eastward and that he will not allow NATO&#8217;s military operations in Eastern Europe to continue. Putin, 69, has been calling on Western nations to stop the eastward expansion of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and to suspend NATO&#8217;s military activities in Eastern Europe. He has no intention of negotiating with them individually, but is demanding a package that includes everything. There is no way that Western countries will accept this. Russia will take a hard line.&#8221;
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What kind of strategy does President Putin have in mind for Moscow? The map below is a summary of the situation in Ukraine from the forced annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2002 to the present. The arrows indicate the expected route of the Russian invasion. As many as 127,000 Russian ground troops have been deployed in northern and eastern Ukraine, and more than 10,000 soldiers have been transferred to the Crimean Peninsula in the south. A total of 175,000 troops in 100 battalions are expected to gather, and all preparations are expected to be completed by the beginning of February.
Military critic Yu Koizumi, a full-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), said.
 The 155th Brigade of Marines in Vladivostok, the 67th Brigade of the Army in Khabarovsk, which deploys modernized T-80BVM tanks, and other units deployed from Siberia to the Far East are moving to Belarus, an allied country. The &#8220;23rd Fighter Regiment&#8221; of Komsomolsk, the mainstay of the air force, has already entered Belarus. If the Belarusian side were to raid the capital, Kiev, it would be mainly these Far Eastern units.
 The Baltic Fleet and the Northern Fleet are also moving south from the Atlantic Ocean, and are expected to pass through the Mediterranean Sea and head for the Black Sea. The plan is for the navy to take Odessa, the third largest city, from the south as soon as the ground forces invade. If Odessa is taken, Ukraine will be cut off from the sea and will be connected from Donetsk, which is occupied by pro-Russian militants, to the pro-Russian areas on the Moldovan side.
NATO forces are deployed in the Baltic states, Poland, and the Black Sea. NATO forces are deployed in the Baltic states, Poland, the Black Sea, and other areas, and are preparing for an invasion by Russian forces, but since Ukraine is not a NATO member, &#8220;we can only warn them, and we cannot stop the Russian landing fleet from entering the Black Sea as we did when we annexed Crimea. Mr. Nakamura said that the worst-case scenario is that Ukraine will not join NATO.
Mr. Nakamura confided in me that there is an &#8220;Ultra C&#8221; to avoid the worst-case scenario.
 He said, &#8220;Russia should join NATO. In fact, in 2002, Putin jokingly suggested that Russia join NATO. The situation is so tight that we have no choice but to invite Russia to join NATO. Russia has the intention of ousting the United States and becoming a world leader.
Will it be war or a conclusion? The situation is growing more severe by the minute.
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From the February 11, 2022 issue of FRIDAY

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 The Russian military's invasion of Ukraine is fast approaching. The Putin campaign is said to already be making preparations for an invasion in enemy territory. We take an in-depth look at the future developments, including the projected invasion route.

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