Ukraine: Army near Crimea on high alert level amid Russia tensions
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday put the military on highest state of alert along the frontier with Crimea after Russia accused Kiev of making attempted incursions into the annexed region.
Moscow’s FSB security service said Wednesday it had thwarted “terrorist attacks” by Ukraine’s military on the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in March 2014.
Poroshenko said he met Ukraine’s top brass as well as foreign ministry officials to discuss the latest flare-up in tensions between the two ex-Soviet foes.
“I ordered a high-alert level on the administrative line with Crimea and contact line in eastern Ukraine,” he tweeted.