Ukrainian media are quoting Ukrainian President Piotr Poroshenko as saying that the Ukrainian people have experienced a real “high” from the recent firing exercise of anti-aircraft S-300 missiles by the Ukrainian armed forces in the vicinity of the Crimean Peninsula. According to Poroshenko, this was attested by the many phone…
Russia And Ukraine On The Brink Of War, Crimea Heats Up
Ukrainian authorities are stating their intention to build a 150 meter (450 foot) telecommunications tower directly adjacent to the Crimean Peninsula for the purposes of enabling Ukrainian radio and TV transmissions into the territory. This was announced by the Ukrainian deputy communications minister Artyom Bidenko on his Facebook page.
As winter approaches, the temperature has gotten exponentially hotter on the Crimean Peninsula and Ukraine’s border with Russia. It is as if both Moscow and Kiev can see the writing on the wall, that a final solution is about to be imposed to the smoldering contest for dominance in Ukraine’s…
The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda is reporting this morning that both Russian land based and sea based anti aircraft forces in the Crimea are now operating in an “enhanced regime”. This report comes on the heels of the closing by the Ukraine yesterday of several large areas of airspace over…
Ukraine has declared large swaths of airspace forbidden to civilian flight operations, reports the Russian news agency TASS. According to a representative of the Russian civilian aviation authority Rossaviatzia, Mr. Sergey Izvolsky, the restricted areas ĺie over international waters as well as Russian territorial waters to the southwest and southeast…
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