[BartSimpson]

Full title: Russia moves tanks to European border amid reports of deadly Crimea shooting


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/697 ... ean-border

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RUSSIAN tanks have been sighted moving along the northern Crimea border with fears growing that a European invasion is imminent.

It has been reported that Russian tanks have been spotted moving into occupied territory in Crimea, which was seized following an operation carried out by Vladimir Putin's forces in 2014.

Witnesses have reported large amounts of Russian military hardware massing near the towns of Dzhankoy and Armyansk in northern Crimea, close to the border with Ukraine.

Norman Dzhelalov, deputy chairman of Crimean Tatar Mejlis – which represents the peninsula’s ethnic Tatar group, claimed on Facebook that tanks had arrived.

He wrote: "Witnesses report that large groups of Russian military hardware have been massed near Armyansk and Dzhankoy.

"Dzhankoy has been cordoned off by troops with tanks and other equipment."

Video footage shows Russian armoured trucks and troop transporters as part of a large military convoy moving down the street.

The footage uploaded to YouTube shows the vehicles moving through the city of Kerch near the Russian border.

Russia also closed its checkpoints along the Crimean border with Ukraine on Sunday morning.

The press centre of the State Border Service of Ukraine also confirmed the closure to the Unian news agency.

It said: "The Russian occupying authorities suspended, for unknown reasons, the handling of citizens and vehicles crossing the administrative border with Crimea."

A local journalist has also reported a deadly gun battle near the border town of Krasnoperekopsk in a Facebook post shared by Mr Dzhelalov.

Elzara Abduramanova wrote: "I don’t want to create panic, but today, as far as possible, it is better to refrain from visits even inside of the Crimea."

Russian news site All Crimea reported the incident which allegedly killed one Russian on Sunday.

They blamed the incident on Ukrainians trying to infiltrate the Russian-occupied peninsula, these claims were rubbished by Ukranian authorities.

Vladislav Seleznyov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army, accused Russia of making "provocative and untrue" claims.

He said: "We are closely monitoring all processes taking place in the annexed territory of Crimea and will adequately respond to any aggressive action."

[BartSimpson]

I guess things are bad enough in Russia that Vlad needs to give his people a distraction. It's too soon to call, but it won't surprise me if this is the first move to take Odessa.

[BRAH]

Don't worry Obama's on it.

[ShepherdsDog]

Sort of split on the issue. A Ukraine separate from Russia is sort of like a Kosovo removed from Serbia. Kievan Rus is the cultural, spiritual and historic birthplace of the Russian Nation. A thousand years is sort of hard to erase.

[BartSimpson]

BRAH BRAH:

Don't worry Obama's on it.

Indeed. Yesterday Obama played the 300th golf game of his Presidency.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-o ... president/

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Sort of split on the issue. A Ukraine separate from Russia is sort of like a Kosovo removed from Serbia. Kievan Rus is the cultural, spiritual and historic birthplace of the Russian Nation. A thousand years is sort of hard to erase.

I don't see Russia giving the Kaliningrad Oblast back to Germany despite 1,000 years of it belonging to the Prussians.

[Thanos]

We told the Bedouins to get over it when Israel kicked them all out of Palestine, and said pretty much the same thing to our own Natives. And no one is getting their ancestral farms back in the Scottish highlands that they got booted off of in order for some rich 17th century English dilettantes to raise sheep. That's fucking life sometimes, buckos. The powerful boot the weak around and always will because the human race, a limited and benighted group that's at an evolutionary dead end, will always think this way.

[DrCaleb]

Another Olympics, another Russian probe into how far the world will let them go before they get push back.

[Batsy2]

Thanos Thanos:

We told the Bedouins to get over it when Israel kicked them all out of Palestine, and said pretty much the same thing to our own Natives. And no one is getting their ancestral farms back in the Scottish highlands that they got booted off of in order for some rich 17th century English dilettantes to raise sheep. That's fucking life sometimes, buckos. The powerful boot the weak around and always will because the human race, a limited and benighted group that's at an evolutionary dead end, will always think this way.

It was Scottish lairds responsible for the Highland Clearances. Nothing to do with the English.