Stocks Plunge, Gold Surges on Russian Invasion Threat! Putin plans Airspace Blockade. Sends 45K troops to Ukraine Border

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Poland Sees Rising Threat of Ukraine Invasion

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

Russia has deployed 45,000 soldiers, 160 tanks and as many as 1,360 armored vehicles, Andriy Lysenko, a Ukrainian military spokesman, told reporters in Kiev yesterday. There are also 192 Russian warplanes and 137 military helicopters, as well as artillery systems and multiple rocket launchers, he said.

While estimates cited by Ukraine include about 20,000 Russian forces in Crimea, those by the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization don’t.

On that basis, Rear Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters yesterday that Russia still has “north of 10,000 troops” on Ukraine’s border, and NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said in a posting on Twitter that the number is about 20,000.

“The numbers aren’t the key metric here,” Kirby said. “What matters is that they continue to reinforce these units, that they are very capable and very ready across what we call combined arms capabilities -- armor, artillery, air defense, special forces, and that they are closer to the border than they were in the spring.”

Looks the stocks are rising again.