those forces began weeks ago so it is perfectly possible that, during all those days of diplomacy when the leaders were coming backwards and forwards to moscow in talking bout the window of diplomacy, the ground invasion plans had already been laid. this is not something you can just suddenlyjust like that. there were blood bank stock, field hospitals, pontoon bridges. artillery. the entire russian military doctrine is one of shock and awe law so what they tend to do is they reorganise themselves into what is called the italian tactical groups or tactical battalion groups. of between to, heavily backed by artillery. three times as much activity do with my artillery as a nato group. so when the infantry sweeps through there s been a barrage of missiles, drones and artillery shells that have preceded