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Ukraine puts forces near Crimean border on full combat alert
Aug 11, 2016




Ukraine has put its armed forces on full combat alert.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he has ordered the army to be put on combat alert on the de-facto border with Crimea and the line of contact in eastern Ukraine.

Poroshenko’s statement on Thursday comes after Russia accused Ukraine of plotting terrorist attacks in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed in March 2014 following a hastily called referendum.

The Russian intelligence agency FSB says its officer and an army soldier were killed over the weekend in two separate incidents while fending off what Moscow described as a series of attacks by Ukrainian “saboteurs.”

Fighting in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Russian-backed separatists has claimed more than 9,500 lives since it began in 2014. But there have not been any reports of disturbances on Ukraine’s de-facto border with Crimea.
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Vostok Brigade of Novorossiya after the Battle of Debaltseve

Novorossiya Azov Sea Flotilla soldiers

 

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new Ukrainian Kozak 5

 

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Sparta Battalion of Novorossiya at a firing range

 

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Low Quality image but a Novorossiya soldier with Gaz Tigr

 

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Motorised rifle battalion 'Viking' of Novorossiya

 

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Air Force Flies ‘Extraordinary’ Mission Over Ukraine In Rebuke Of Russian ‘Escalation’


The U.S. military conducted an “extraordinary flight” over Ukraine Thursday to “reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations” amid escalating tensions triggered by “provocative and threatening” Russian behavior, the Department of Defense said in a statement.

A U.S. Air Force OC-135B observation aircraft flew over Ukraine with U.S., Canadian, German, French, United Kingdom, Romanian and Ukrainian observers on board, the Pentagon told Business Insider in an emailed statement. The observation flight was requested under the Open Skies Treaty by the Arms Control Directorate of the Ukrainian General Staff.

“The timing of this flight is intended to reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations,” the Department of Defense said. “Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait is a dangerous escalation in a pattern of increasingly provocative and threatening activity.”



The statement refers to the recent clash between Russian ships and Ukrainian naval vessels in the Sea of Azov. The Russian vessels rammed and fired upon three Ukrainian ships before capturing the ships and their crews.

The Open Skies Treaty allows signatory states to gather information about the military activities of other member countries. While normal Open Skies Treaty observation flights ought to be approved by all member states, including Russia, extraordinary flights can be conducted on a bilateral basis, CNN reported.

A total of 25 U.S. military personnel — eight Defense Threat Reduction Agency personnel and a 17-person aircrew from the 55th Wing out of Offut Air Force Base, Nebraska — participated in Thursday’s flight.

The flight comes on the heels of an unusual U.S. Navy freedom-of-navigation operation in the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay. The guided-missile destroyer USS McCambell conducted the operation, the first in this area since the Cold War, Wednesday, challenging Russia near the headquarters of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet.

The U.S. is also making preparations to send a warship into the Black Sea, CNN reported Wednesday. “Our U.S. 6th Fleet is always prepared to respond where called,” Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a spokesman for 6th Fleet, told reporters.
“The United States seeks a better relationship with Russia, but this cannot happen while its unlawful and destabilizing actions continue in Ukraine and elsewhere,” the Pentagon said in a statement Thursday.

Air Force Flies 'Extraordinary' Mission Over Ukraine In Rebuke Of Russian 'Escalation'

The U.S. military conducted an "extraordinary flight" over Ukraine Thursday to "reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations" amid

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another Torn intelligence system used by Novorossiya was spotted near Novohryhorivka. another Torn intelligence system was used at the Battle of Debaltseve

 

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2 more R-330ZH Zhitel Jamming systems were spotted in Ukraine. rumors also say a Tirada-2 communication jammer was spotted too