The border guard service said Ukrainian forces had taken up defensive positions on Arbatskaya Strelka, running parallel to the east of Crimea, now controlled by Russian forces. It said about 60 Russian troops had landed on the strip and begun digging in, assisted by three armoured personnel carriers.
Six Russian helicopters arrived with 60 more servicemen about two hours later outside the village of Strelkovoye.
"At this time, there is no threat of confrontation," the Ukrainian border guard service said. [Reuters]
Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, has said a new "Cold War" would not break out because of the Ukraine crisis.
"With all our soul, we hope that both ourselves and our partners have enough political wisdom, feelings of political realism, to avoid sliding into an even deeper confrontation - ideological or otherwise - because of Ukraine," Peskov said in an interview with the television channel Ren-TV.
Peskov said that Russia and the West were economically co-dependent, criticising suggestions by economists that Russia was capable of self-isolation.
"This would be illogical, unrealistic and absurd at the present time, in the age of globalisation, in the age of absolute economic co-dependence," he said. "We are interested in the development of cooperation, and we wouldn't like what is happening in Ukraine to have the opposite effect," Peskov said. [Reuters]
"At this time, there is no threat of confrontation," the Ukrainian border guard service said. [Reuters]
Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, has said a new "Cold War" would not break out because of the Ukraine crisis.
"With all our soul, we hope that both ourselves and our partners have enough political wisdom, feelings of political realism, to avoid sliding into an even deeper confrontation - ideological or otherwise - because of Ukraine," Peskov said in an interview with the television channel Ren-TV.
Peskov said that Russia and the West were economically co-dependent, criticising suggestions by economists that Russia was capable of self-isolation.
"This would be illogical, unrealistic and absurd at the present time, in the age of globalisation, in the age of absolute economic co-dependence," he said. "We are interested in the development of cooperation, and we wouldn't like what is happening in Ukraine to have the opposite effect," Peskov said. [Reuters]
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