Tyagnibok: Russia is drawing up troops to the border with Ukraine, a large landing craft with paratroopers and armored personnel carriers is heading towards Crimea
24.02.2014 11:33
(Moscow time)
Kyiv, February 24 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - Russia is drawing up troops to the borders with Ukraine, the leader of the Svoboda party Oleg Tyagnibok said at a meeting of the Conciliation Council in the Verkhovna Rada.
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“Information constantly comes in about the accumulation of troops on the border with the Russian Federation,” he said.
Tyagnibok, in particular, clarified that today the large landing ship of the Black Sea Fleet, Nikolai Filchenkov, should arrive from the port of Temryuk to Sevastopol.
“It must deliver 200 marines and 10 armored personnel carriers,” the deputy shared his concerns, calling on the relevant services to verify this information.