Ukrainian border guards arrested a Ukrainian soldier-turned-Russian sergeant who was attempting to cross back into Ukraine from Crimea to see family, Ukrainian media reported Thursday. The soldier was likely one of the estimated 12,000 Ukrainian servicemen who defected to the Russian military following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The date of the arrest was not specified, but the report comes a day after Crimea and Russia celebrated the one year anniversary of Russia’s formal annexation of the former Ukrainian territory. …read more
Source: International Business Times
