Ukrainian president orders troops onto highest state of alert in Donbass

[Perrine]

[quote]Ukraine is ordering its troops to be on the "highest level of combat readiness" Thursday, amid growing tensions with Russia over Crimea.

The order comes after Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of launching a militant attack at "critically important infrastructure" near the city of Armyansk, Crimea, according to Russia's state news service TASS.
But Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko refuted the claims, calling them "insane" and suggesting Russia's aim was more military threats against its neighbor.
The spat has seen tensions between the countries rise to their highest level since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Violent clashes on the streets of Ukraine between pro-European activists and pro-Russian supporters in early 2014 set the scene for the annexation.
By March of that year, thousands of Russian-speaking troops poured into Crimea. Weeks later, Russia completed its annexation of the peninsula in a referendum that was slammed by Ukraine as illegitimate.[/quote]

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/ukraine-high-alert-russia-crimea/index.html[/url]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-poroshenko-idINKCN10M15U[/url]

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[Raidyr]

For anyone wondering why people would be apprehensive about electing a president that has backed Putin's claim in Crimea and has publicly disavowed NATO.

This is why.

[Croatsky]

Ukrainian forces have been preparing for this for past 1 year and half since so-called second Minsk ceasefire. I hope they'll hold their ground for eventual pro-Russian forces offensive.

[Doom64hunter]

Are the tanks still 30 minutes away from Kiev?

[Perogi Palooka]

Here comes that Russian land corridor to Crimea!

[Saxon]

[QUOTE=richard9311;50868526]Here comes that Russian land corridor to Crimea![/QUOTE]

That's just silly, there just happens to be a large group of ethnic speaking Russians that need to be protected and the land in which they live on just happens to connect Russia and Crimea.

[bourgogne]

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[Asgard]

[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;50869787][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6Azyuqo.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Oh wow, I had to check if it was real, but it is.

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