But analysts say the Russian troop deployment gives Moscow an array of options and President Vladimir Putin will make his choice weighing factors ranging from the West's retaliation to the weather.
Despite the mass ground deployment, an invasion would be costly for Russia, which is why Putin could opt instead for air and artillery strikes on Ukrainian command and control centres to destroy their ability to retaliate"without having to move Russian troops", he said. "Russia likes to put forces in play that can calibrate the crisis from complete de-escalation to total warfare, so that they have all the options," said William Alberque of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
He said that even the large numbers of Russian troops deployed on the border were not enough for a"massive invasion and occupation" of Ukraine.
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