Russia to deploy more anti-aircraft missiles in Crimea
Posted Nov 28, 2018 03:20:55 AM.
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MOSCOW — A military official says Russia will boost the defence of the occupied Crimean peninsula with more anti-aircraft missiles.
The Interfax news agency on Wednesday quoted Col. Vadim Astafyev, the top Defence Ministry official in Russia’s south, as saying that Russia will add one S-400 anti-aircraft missile system to the three already deployed in the peninsula.
The announcement comes three days after Russian border guards fired on three Ukrainian vessels and seized them and their crews. The first overt military confrontation between the two neighbouring countries has raised the spectre of a major conflict.
Ukraine said its vessels were operating in line with international maritime rules, while Russia alleged they had failed to get permission to pass.
The Associated Press
