The shut down plans proposed two months before Russia invaded Ukraine to send a 'few hundred' special operation personnel to to provide military advice and unconventional warfare training, three separate U.S. officials .
U.S. military officials told lawmakers in December 2021 that they wanted the forces to help Ukraine at a time when Russia had amassed 100,000 troops at the border with Ukraine, but had not yet invaded.
White House officials, according to two people familiar with two separate December briefings, were concerned increased troop presence would escalate tensions with Russia – and a congressional aide said Pentagon officials scrapped the plan to deploy to this area due to those concerns.
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