Ukraine Goes on Alert After Russia’s Crimea ‘Terror’ Claim
- Putin vows ‘serious additional measures’ on peninsula
- Ukrainian officials say Russia wants to escalate conflict
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko put his troops on the border with Russian-held Crimea and in the country’s eastern regions on “high alert” after he warned that Vladimir Putin is seeking to reignite the conflict in the disputed territories.
The command came a day after the Russian president said Ukrainian agents had engaged in “terror” on the Black Sea peninsula, which he seized in 2014. Putin vowed to respond with “very serious” measures, touching off the worst diplomatic standoff between the two countries since a truce signed last year in Belarus eased heavy fighting in Ukraine’s conflict with pro-Russian separatists.