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Ukrainian army on high alert due to the threat of Russian invasion 3004144.
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| Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:59 AM | |||
| Ukrainian army on high alert due to the threat of Russian invasion. | |||
The
Ukrainian army is on high alert due to the “threat of a Russian
invasion,” Ukraine’s acting President Aleksandr Turchinov
said after admitting that the government in Kiev cannot control the situation
in the east of the country. |
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 Ukrainian soldiers sit on an airborne combat vehicle near Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. |
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“I am going
back to the real threat that Russia would unleash a continental war
against Ukraine. Our armed forces have been put on full alert,”
Turchinov told Wednesday, April 30, 2014, a council of heads of Ukrainian
regions in Kiev, as news agencies report. Turchinov was elected a new speaker of the parliament and appointed by the MPs to act as the country’s acting president after the previous leader, Viktor Yanukovich, was ousted following violent street protests in February. The new authorities in Kiev are failing to deal with a wave of protests against them centered in the Donetsk Region of eastern Ukraine. Despite announcing an “anti-terrorist operation” and amassing a large number of troops and heavy weapons in the region, the national government has failed to prevent the continued seizures of buildings there and some other eastern regions of Ukraine. There are indications that Kiev does not have enough loyal troops to deliver on its promised protest crackdown. On several occasions the troops sent against activists simply defected, surrendering their weapons and armored vehicles. |
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