KEY QUOTE: Parubiy said that Ukraine’s Interior Ministry is seeing the first traces of the Russian incursion into continental Ukraine: In the early hours of the morning on March 12, the Security Service of Ukraine apprehended several people in southern Kherson Oblast who were conducting “investigative intelligence activity.” Their leader was a citizen of the Russian Federation traveling under a stolen Ukrainian passport. After being arrested, he admitted that he traveled to Kherson to collect intelligence information, including the location of Ukrainian troops. On March 11, the Security Service of Ukraine said investigators detained a Russian saboteur in the Donetsk region and accused him of preparing explosives and planning other acts of diversion. Parubiy characterized the agitators as “special forces” who are members of the most “elite ranks of the Russian army.” In addition to trained military personnel, Parubiy counted professional actors among the agitators who have infiltrated Ukraine, saying that they had been hired to make the sabotage more convincing. He said that agitators have even infiltrated some of the many self-defense groups that have formed on Kyiv’s Independence Square. Parubiy announced that Ukraine’s Border Service prevented 3,700 Russian citizens from entering the country under suspicion that they were sent to carry out “extremist activity.” He noted that provocations are most likely to occur in the Kherson, Odessa, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, saying that Kherson and Odessa are subject to subversive activity because of their proximity to the Russian-backed breakaway state of Transnistria. Luhansk and Donetsk share long stretches of border with Russia. kyivpost/content/ukraine/parubiy-warns-of-full-scale-russian-invasion-in-ukraine-339305.html
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:16 +0000
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