Much has been written. well, I will try to answer. Very good all painted Steve. I myself could not explain all of this due to poor language skills. There are things that are extremely controversial. But 90-95% I agree with him. I'm in the subject almost from the beginning. In April - May 2014 I was there. Almost all Russian families have relatives in Ukraine, near or far. And i am too. In the Lugansk SBU captured locals, maybe they were related to the Ukrainian oligarchs, I do not know. About the Russian special services did not know- speech never went. When capturing SBU Slavyansk they were local thugs, airsoft, black diggers, and about 70 peoples come together with the I.Strelkov from the Krimea. Perhaps among them were are number of people from the special services. But that was not army unit. Some of them had combat experience. All were armed with civilians carbines. Rifles, machine guns, and grenade launchers was taken in the armory in the SBU Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. vice-news often shows them and said that a Russian special forces. https://rufabula.com/media/upload/images/2014/04/14/0_10116e_ce95272f_XL.jpg this is not true. the first 5 BMP and Nonna were captured with me, or rather hungry and do not smoke and eaten 3 days paratroopers themselves went to the rebels. Its true. There were very few weapons. Many were armed only with pistols. In warehouses in Artemovsk from Ukraine military was bought SKS and at-rifles. First weapons delivery starting at the first number of june.... I wrote my first post because the theme quite seriously discussed the low combat capability of the Russian Army ( group 6 in Steve therminology) -"the-russian-paper-tiger-" and HI combat capability Ukraine . but as far as known in the few cases when highly incomplete numerically smaller then staff laid Russians tactical groups caused a rapid and crushing defeat Ukraine forces. it seems to me (I do not know the secret information), more than 90% of time Ukraine forces was fought against group (1-2-3-4), 7% (5group), and 1-3? %group 6) and where is Russian Army ? and who is paper-tiger ? but its only my opinion, and I can only speak about what I saw. because (it seems to me) over the last few years Steve knows a lot of secret things :-), very much like to hear his opinion about the number of incoming troops.