Russia is working to resurrect a number of Soviet-built military facilities in Crimea that were used during the Cold War as a defense against naval attacks, Reuters reported Tuesday.
A resident from Crimea’s southern coast who was employed at a base last year said Moscow has begun stationing soldiers in the formerly abandoned bunkers and blocking the roads that lead to the areas.
Tourists previously paid $50 to visit the former Soviet sites, but after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, signs were erected barring visitors from entering a “forbidden zone of the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
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Source: The Washington Free Beacon
