Russian troops move up to Ukraine’s border

Unit commanders got orders to prepare for a “peacemaking operation”.

This comes from the Facebook account of the head of the Ukrainian Center for Military and Political Studies Dmytro Tymchuk.

“According to operational data of the Informational Resistance group, Russian troops, deployed in the 100 km area from Ukraine’s state border, are moving up to the border in Luhansk region area. According to the data we possess, the commanders of Russian military units got instructions to be prepared for a “peacekeeping operation” in the territory of Ukraine”, - Dmytro Tymchuk reports.

It was earlier reported that in Mariupol of Donetsk region an attack was committed at the National Guard’s roadblock yesterday night. The 5th channel’s filming crew got into the firing line. The channel’s journalist Iryna Herasimova reports that the shooting from automatic weapons was made from the city’s side. There are no casualties on the part of Ukrainian law enforcers, neither suffered the journalists.

Since early March actions of separatists, inspired by Russia, have been taking place in Ukraine’s south-east regions. The epicenters of the disturbances are regional centers and a number of large towns, in which subversives and gunmen from time to time take control over administration buildings. Ukraine’s Security Service got evidence that they are led by Russian secret services and intelligence.

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