The Russian military has announced
the delivery of new air defence missiles to Crimea, in a move scheduled
before the latest tension with Ukraine.
The S-400 Triumph missile systems were earmarked for troops in Crimea last month, Russian media said at the time. Moscow also announced exercises in Crimea next week to simulate an attack by weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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Ukrainian tanks could be seen in the Kherson region, moving towards Crimea
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Russia, which annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, said this week it had foiled a Ukrainian sabotage mission. It
accused the Ukrainian government in Kiev of trying to send saboteurs
into Crimea and reported the deaths of a soldier and a secret police
officer in an operation to foil the alleged plot.
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Yevhen Panov was shown in custody
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow might be forced to cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine if the crisis worsened.
Denying
the accusations, Ukraine placed its troops on alert along its de facto
border with Crimea, and along its front line with Russian-backed rebels
holding parts of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east. A column of Ukrainian tanks could be seen rolling towards Crimea on Friday.
