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| Russian | English |
| боеготовые войска | combat-ready troops (Taras) |
| боеготовые силы | combat-ready force (President Putin may soon face a choice between accepting that the game, in its present form, is lost, or intervening to push the Ukrainians back. He is certainly assembling the means to do so, dispatching to the border a combat-ready force that could, if it crossed into Ukraine, rapidly transform the situation. 4uzhoj) |