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Pentagon says 20,000 Russian troops may be in Crimea

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA261RC20140307

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Ukraine's border guards have put the figure far higher.

Serhiy Astakhov, an aide to the border guards' commander, said 30,000 Russian soldiers were now in Crimea, compared with the 11,000 permanently based with the Russian Black Sea fleet in the port of Sevastopol before the crisis.