New version: Entrances to Crimea are blocked due to the search for a deserter with weapons
A new version of the closure of checkpoints on the border of Crimea and Ukraine, as well as night shooting, has emerged. Odessa journalist Natalya Perevalova, who has been trying to enter the peninsula since yesterday evening, citing conversations with border guards, reported that the border closure may be connected with the search for a deserter who fled from a military unit with weapons.
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“That's what the border guards said in the morning. The dude escaped from the military unit... in the Armyansk area the plan was intercepted. Russian border guards illuminated the fields around the checkpoint all night, in the morning they brought a lot of dogs, a helicopter was flying... It was like he was stuck there,” Perevalova wrote on her page on the social network.
According to her, after the Kalanchak checkpoint was closed last night due to shootings, those trying to get to Crimea headed to the Chaplinka checkpoint. There is now a huge line of cars here.
“We don’t know for sure who shot at night, but the night in the car under the fire of the rocket launchers was strange. We moved to Chaplinka point. The booth is in the field and the queue is unreal. There is no end in sight, no progress either. The situation seems to be calm,” writes Perevalova.
It is interesting that the head of the Crimean NTV bureau, Oleg Kryuchkov, assures that the Russian side does not confirm the information about the deserter’s escape. “Stop reading Ukrainian and Majlis nonsense and talking nonsense in your feed! This is what they are trying to achieve. There are no deserters. The situation on the island is under control... all I can say for now. Ukraine needs provocations, and there are enough helpers here,” Kryuchkov said in his blog.
Speaker of the State Border Service of Ukraine Oleg Slobodyan said that this morning, entry into Crimea was carried out through the Chaplinka and Chongar checkpoints.
He also notes that Russia has significantly increased its military presence near the border: “Border guards observed flights of at least 9 Mi-8 helicopters of the Russian Armed Forces at an altitude of up to 1 km and 2 UAVs. At different sites, military equipment drove up to the positions of the Russian Armed Forces: trucks and infantry fighting vehicles.”
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