Aug 9, 2016 – There are signs of both sides going back to a war footing: Kyiv is on high alert and has deployed special-forces units and battle-hardened battalions to the front, while Russia has reportedly amassed large amounts of military hardware in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula it seized from Ukraine in March 2014.
I found this on twitter with the message “@EjmAlrai not just in Syria either, they’ve been in Ukraine for some time, even helping to blockade Crimea.”
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After the leader of separatists in the Luhansk region, Igor Plotnitsky, was injured in an apparent assassination attempt on August 6, separatists were ordered to be on full combat readiness.
Russian troops step up its military activity in annexed peninsula, near the border with Ukraine
Russia has deployed carriers of nuclear weapons in Crimea, said Vadym Skibitskyi, representative of the Main Intelligence Department of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, during a briefing today that was broadcast by 112 Ukraine channel.
Ukraine deploys more military equipment and forces to strengthen its army units in the Kherson region – near the administrative border between mainland Ukraine and Russia-annexed Crimea.
Ukrainian Presidential spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation issues Andriy Lysenko says Ukraine is on alert, waiting for an offensive by the Russian army to begin at any time.
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This was confirmed by Speaker of Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces Vladyslav Seleznev, according to Krym.Realii.
Residents of the Henychesk area (Ukraine’s Kherson region, near Russia-annexed Crimea) told that they spotted Ukrainian heavy military hardware, including anti-tank rocket launchers, moving in their direction.
Vladyslav Seleznyov said, Ukrainian authorities respond quickly and effectively to a situation that may be caused by Russia’s possible military activities in this area.
Translated:
The Russian side on Tuesday, August 9, the suspended passage of people and vehicles through the checkpoint “Chongar” on the border with the occupied Crimea. “So now in control points of entry and exit on admingranitse to temporarily occupied the Crimea, the situation is complicated by supervisory bodies occupying the country issued only those who are sent to the temporarily occupied the peninsula, and only KPVV.” Chaplinka “,” – said State border Guard service of Ukraine ..
Also remains completely blocked checkpoint ” Kalanchak ” where admission of persons and vehicles blocked in both directions .
Ukraine’s Deputy Minister on Crimean Affairs, Georgiy Tuka, said that the Russian government in Crimea has called for “military exercises, conducted on along the borderline of demarcation,” Ukrainian television channel 112 reported. Speaking on air on Sunday, Tuka said that, “in order not to put the civilian population in danger, the border crossings have been frozen.”
Vice-President of the Congress of the Crimean Tatars Lenur Islyamov reported that on admingranitse heard gunfire and saw several helicopters. He believes that the military exercises are carried out at the border. At the same time, according to the Crimean rights group, which refers to the testimony of local residents, the Russian authorities through the Kerch ferry tossed on the Crimean peninsula, occupied a large amount of military equipment.
http://zn.ua/UKRAINE/vyezd-iz-kryma-zablokirovan-dlya-proezda-na-poluostrov-ostalsya-tolko-odin-kpvv-221059_.html
The border service press secretary Oleh Slobodyan said on Monday that Ukrainian officials at the Kherson regional border with Crimea had spotted at least nine flybys by Russian air force helicopters and two drones at a one-kilometer height.
The comments from Ukrainian officials come as activists from the Crimean Human Rights Group posted footage purporting to show a large movement of military armored trucks moving on a civilian street. According to the group, the video shows the passage of Russian military gear over the weekend into Crimea.
The exact location of the footage, according to Eliot Higgins, director of geotracking project Bellingcat, appears to be Buddenogo Street, with the convoy heading northwest through the city of Kerch—the major crossing point with Russia’s mainland.
Ukraine’s border guard service, meanwhile, reported that Russian authorities had blocked all road entry to the Black Sea peninsula for several hours on August 7.
On the same day, Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Mejlis Nariman Dzhelalov wrote on Facebook: “Witnesses report that large groups of Russian military hardware have been massed near Armyansk and Dzhankoy. Dzhankoy has been cordoned off by troops with tanks and other equipment.”
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