Russia Warns of Consequences From Deaths as Ukraine on Alert
- Putin vows ‘serious additional measures’ on annexed peninsula
- Ukrainian officials say Russia wants to escalate conflict
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Russia said the deaths of servicemen in Crimea would carry “consequences” and Ukraine put its troops on “high alert,” warning that Vladimir Putin is seeking to reignite the conflict in the disputed territories.
The Foreign Ministry in Moscow raised the threat of retaliation a day after the Russian president vowed to respond with “very serious” measures and said Ukrainian agents had engaged in “terror” tactics on the Black Sea peninsula, which Putin seized in 2014. Poroshenko dismissed the accusations as “fiction” that could be an “excuse for further military threats” by Russia.