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Russia’s Putin meets top brass to discuss security in Crimea
Russia’s security agency on Wednesday said it had thwarted “terrorist attacks” in Crimea by Ukrainian military intelligence and beaten back armed assaults, but Kiev furiously denied the incidents.
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The FSB said the intruders carried an arsenal of bombs, ammunition and mines. Two Russian servicemen were killed in an operation to detain the terrorists.
He also says that Ukraine should demand that the Russian side, the occupation force should grant the OSCE SMM access “to facilities in Crimea”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for security to be ramped up on the annexed Crimea peninsula after accusing Ukraine of attempting armed incursions into the disputed region.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had ordered all Ukrainian units near Crimea and in eastern Ukraine onto the highest state of combat readiness.
However, Kiev has demonstrated that it’s not interested in peaceful negotiations, the Russian president told reporters, adding that he would like to address the matter with Moscow’s American and European partners as well.
A Ukrainian delegation of reservists and military intelligence officers are providing their British counterparts with information about Russian tactics, according to the UK’s The Times daily. “Russia deliberately pushes for an escalation and ignores the opportunities it has to preserve the status quo”.
“The main political question now is what is the future of the Minsk process”, the paper wrote, referring to the peace deal hammered out in the Belarussian capital in February 2015.
The UN Security Council is set to discuss the escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russian Federation at Kiev’s request later on Thursday, Reuters reported.
A large majority of voters supported separating Crimea from Ukraine and Russian Federation annexed the territory.
“This situation signals an imminent threat to the peace and stability not only in Ukraine but also in the entire region”, the ministry said, urging the worldwide community to apply pressure on Moscow, to “prevent a new round of aggression against Ukraine”. Ukraine has called the accusations false and says they look like a pretext for Russian Federation to escalate hostilities. Hardly any disturbances or let alone cross-border shootings have been reported in Crimea since the annexation. On August 6th, Igor Plotnitsky, the head of the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic, was the target of an assassination attempt that he blamed on Ukrainian forces (though internal power struggles are as likely to be the cause).
Russian Federation annexed Crimea in 2014, a move not recognized by the USA and widely condemned by other countries. But after Poroshenko was elected in May 2014, Putin began to call the Ukrainian government “partners”.
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“The people who seized power in Kiev … have switched to terror tactics instead of searching for ways for a peaceful settlement”, Putin told a news conference, saying Russian Federation would not let such actions pass without a response. “Putin in his rhetoric has returned to the start of 2014”.