LONDON — Russia has put air defence units on alert and deployed warships along the west coast of Crimea after the Ukrainian military fired surface-to-air missiles over the Black Sea in a show of military strength that has riled the Kremlin.
The Ukrainian military fired 16 S-300 medium-range missiles in drills in its Kherson region, which borders Crimea, as it began a two-day drill Thursday.
The Russian government, which annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, has called the drills a “dangerous precedent” and threatened at first to shoot down the missiles.
AP file photoAn S-300 missile takes flight in southern Russia.
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Source: National Post
