Numerous Mi-8s and Mi-24s along with VDV personnel are stationed near Belgorod (some 20 km from the border) in the field.


(March 24)

State Of War http://www.kyivpost.com/media/images/2014/03/28/p18k2r1ioq1j141fk8qek6jkjrm4/big.jpg Ukraine’s new National Guard trains on March 17. The nation is scrambling to mobilize 40,000 National Guard and reserve members to bolster a Defense Ministry with 180,000 personnel. Fears are high of a...

Putin’s war against Ukraine is no longer one of the possible scenarios, it is the only scenario. A full scale war from the Kremlin against Ukraine has become not only one of the possible scenarios, today it is the only one. Ukrainians must accept this fact calmly and without panic. One needs to ass...

CNN: Obama: U.S. and Europe united over Ukraine crisis Additional intelligence suggests that more Russian forces are "reinforcing" the border region, according to both Obama administration officials. Russian troops already in the border region include air defense artillery and wheeled veh...

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It's been said that the sniper is from a local militia, not the RU. The sniper is neither from the local milita, nor RU forces, and not from UKR forces either. Same situation as in Moskow in '93, when protestors were shot in the back from the vicinity of the American embassy to cause a riot, same s...

Grabbed_by_the_Spets wrote:It's been said that the sniper is from a local militia, not the RU.

Putin said the whole Russian army in Crimea is militia. There's no single reason to trust them.

Ukrainian border, T-64BV on the guard.

First victim of the war Ukrainian senior sergeant (Kakurin S.V.) was killed by sniper fire during assault on Ukrainian military facility in Crimea yesterday. Photo of Russian sniper. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjFlHW2CYAABEO6.jpg (note that Ukrainian soldiers on the background are arrested)

Soviet:
Taras
Valentin

This is first names, not last names, please fix.