According to Vice Admiral Haiduk, Russian troops that were later involved in the Crimea seizure got to the peninsula by air and sea, while no one coordinated their deployment with the Ukrainian Navy.
Chief of the British general staff, Gen Sir Nicholas Carter, has described Russia as the biggest state-based threat to the UK since the cold war and warned that hostilities could begin a lot sooner than the UK expects, according to the Guardian.
The Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook, published in December 2016 and recently released over the Internet, examines Russian hybrid military tactics and how the U.S. military can counter them, according to The National Interest.
Military expert Oleh Zhdanov has dug into Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement that the U.S. deliveries of lethal defensive aid to Ukraine could provoke the use of military force in other areas.
At the beginning of the Russian occupation of Crimea, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces planned an operation that could drastically change the course of events, former deputy head, now Chief of the General Staff Viktor Muzhenko said in an interview with Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.