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.
The development of military infrastructure at the borders with Ukraine would be a priority for the Russian army, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at a conference call on Tuesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Russia.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claims that tension in Ukraine, Syria and the Korean Peninsula, which are strategically important to Russia, is getting particularly stronger, according to the Russian news agency RBC.