America’s top military officer said Friday that Russian forces could launch an invasion of Ukraine with “very, very little warning” as hundreds of thousands of troops remain poised on the border between the two Eastern European nations.Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added during a news conference alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the current Russian troop build-up “does feel different” from past maneuvers by Moscow. “This is larger in scale and scope in the massing of forces than anything we have seen in recent memory, and I think you’d have to go back quite a while into the Cold War days to see something of this magnitude,” Milley said. “They do annual exercises and we watch those closely, but this is different.”
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