According to documents on the Russian government’s website, nine barracks for 3,500 soldiers are being built near the village of SolotiRussia has started building a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a project that suggests the Kremlin is digging in for a prolonged stand-off with Kiev. The base, when completed, will even have its own swimming pool, skating rink and barber shop, according to public documents. This week workmen were erecting a fence in a cornfield outside the village of Soloti to mark the perimeter, and told a Reuters reporter …read more
Source: The Guardian