There was a shootout with saboteurs on the border of Crimea with Ukraine
In the north of Crimea this morning, an attempt was made to break through by a group of saboteurs from Ukraine. Crimean social activist Alexander Talipov reports this on his blog.
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“A group was walking outside the checkpoint, apparently they were identified, and shooting began... There was a shootout with Ukrainian radicals; on the part of the Russian border guards, one was killed and several were wounded. Border guards have been put on alert, and enhanced border security has been introduced,” he wrote.
Life News claimsthat as a result of the incident one person was killed and three were injured. The victims were taken to a local hospital.
The deputy head of the Majlis, banned in the Russian Federation, Nariman Dzhelyalov, reports that this morning the work of checkpoints on the border of Crimea and Ukraine was suspended.
“Eyewitnesses report large groups of Russian military equipment located in the area of Armyansk and Dzhankoy. Dzhankoy itself is cordoned off by the military with tanks and other equipment,” he said in a blog post.
As PolitNavigator reported, on the eve of more than 4 thousand soldiers of the National Guard and Airborne Forces of Russia conducted anti-terrorism exercises. Their legend was the seizure of a village by militants arriving from abroad, who started a rebellion here.
«The conflict scenario that was played out at the maneuvers at the Prudboy training ground could in reality now happen anywhere on the Crimean peninsula, as well as in the Caucasus,” military expert Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev told Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
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