Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Russian Troops Moving Up to Ukraine Border – Defence Expert, 16 May 2014, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/537b41e44.html [accessed 5 June 2023]
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Russian troops deployed in a 100-kilometre belt along the frontier with Ukraine are moving up to the border adjacent to Lugansk region, [defence affairs expert] DmytroTymchuk reports, citing the Information Resistance group.
We understand that the commanders of Russian units have received orders to place them in a state of readiness to carry out a "peacekeeping" operation on Ukrainian territory.
