Contents tagged with Russian military in Crimea
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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense: Russian military group in the Crimea poses a threat to entire Black Sea
Russian troops in the Black Sea have sufficient strength to control the area, according to Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine on European Integration Anatoly Petrenko, reports Ukrinform. Petrenko made the statement during a forum in Kyiv called “Occupied Peninsula: Four Years of Resistance.”
According to Petrenko, Russia "created on the peninsula a self-sufficient interdepartmental group that is capable of conducting operations in the north-west strategic direction." "This allows the Russian …
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Russian Deputy Defense Minister inspects Russian military units in Crimea
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov visited annexed Crimea to inspect the military units, Russia’s Interfax reported.
“The Deputy Minister inspected the condition of the car park, barracks, canteen and other military administration facilities of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 126th Coastal Defense Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet,” Interfax cites a defense ministry official as saying. According to him, Bulgakov also inspected the results of the diagnostics and the …
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Media: Russia will put Crimean air defense systems on high combat alert
The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Ozerov, stated that Russia will put the air defense systems of the Crimea on high combat alert during the Ukrainian missile firing exercises, RIA Novosti reported. “All our intelligence and air defense systems will be put on high combat alert in order to avoid any missiles accidentally hitting our territory,” Ozerov said.
According to him, Russia does not consider these firing exercises as a threat because the …
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A column of Russian military equipment entered Simferopol
A column of Russian military equipment entered the city of Simferopol in the annexed Crimea, according to a report by the Human Rights Information Center in the Crimea.
There were at least five armored personnel carriers and no less than ten trucks in the motorcade. "The motorcade entered from the side of the highway to Mykolayivka and proceeded along Heroyiv Stalingrada Street through a densely populated residential district. The military vehicles were escorted by traffic police cars, …