The reinforcements bring the total Russian force in the region to more than 25,000 troops, a Ukrainian reconnaissance and intelligence group said. The timesadding that nine Russian battle groups, each between 500 and 800 men, had been moved there from Donbass and Crimea. “Unfortunately Boris Johnson didn’t give us the longer-range missiles we needed to hit them on the road,” smiled Sergeant ‘Hulk’, 47, the goliath commander of an intelligence group in the 28th Mechanized Brigade. “But we have a surprise in store