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Defence & Security News - Ukraine |
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Thursday, March 13, 2014 01:23 PM | |||
Russian army massing troops and combat vehicles near its borders with Ukraine. | |||
According
a news from Daily mail website, March 12, 2014, Russian army has massed
80,000 soldiers, main battle tanks and armoured vehicles personnel carrier
on its borders with Ukraine. A senior security chief in Kiev said Moscow
could launch a full-scale invasion and Russian troops would be in the
Ukrainian capital within ‘two or three hours’ of the order
to advance. |
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Russian army armoured vehicles near Rostov in Russia |
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Photographs
of Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers close to Ukraine’s
borders added to tensions. |
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Screenshot video of Russian main battle tanks T-72B3 in the streets of Rostov, which is around 105 miles from Mariupol, on the Azov Sea, in Ukraine's Donetsk region |
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A
driver travelling from the Donetsk region in Ukraine to the Rostov-on-Don
region in Russia filmed one column, several miles long, heading towards
the border. Russian main battle tanks have also been pictured being carried by rail in Belgorod, and are reported to be in a village 12 miles from the border. The moves come as the Russian armed forces have announced a separate huge military exercise by its airborne troops. The three-day exercise ordered by Putin involves a vast ‘landing operation’ by 4,000 paratroopers. |
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Russian
and Ukraine movement of troops (March 13, 2014) |
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