Russian troops will face a far more formidable adversary if Putin invades Ukraine again now. Ukraine’s military is better trained, better equipped and more battle tested than it was eight years ago, experts say.

“They are not what they were in 2014,” said Jim Townsend, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense.

While Russia is still the superior military power and would almost certainly prevail, Ukraine’s defense forces could inflict significant damage on Russian troops, according to an analysis by the Atlantic Council, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington.

“In collaboration with reservists, civil society, and volunteers, they can make any attempted invasion a miserable experience for Russia,” the group concluded in a report last month.

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/better-trained-better-equipped-know-100202756.html