The tension is getting worse! The Russian army was exposed to continuously sending more military aircraft to Crimea.
CCTV News:On the 17th, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said in a live video broadcast on the website of Communist Youth League Pravda that the Ukrainian authorities will conduct military provocations in Crimea at the end of this month, and then declare to the world that Russia will attack Ukraine, thus imposing sanctions on Russia. Lavrov also said that Russia will take all necessary measures to prevent it, but he also promised that Russia will not go to war with Ukraine.
Turchinov, secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Committee, denied the Russian statement through social networking sites and called Lavrov’s words "a complete lie". Ukrainian Prime Minister Groisman said that Lavrov’s remarks were "imaginary" and Ukraine had never initiated any provocation anywhere.

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According to a report by RIA Novosti on the 17th, the Russian Defense Ministry said on the same day that Russia will dispatch more than 10 Su -27SM and Su -30M2 fighters from the Kremlin airport in Krasnodar Territory to the Belibek military airport in Crimea on the 22nd. The Russian Defense Ministry pointed out that the deployment is to conduct a comprehensive overhaul of the Belibek Air Force Base in Crimea, and Russian warplanes will be permanently stationed at the military base.

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[Expansion] The Russian army was exposed to continuously send more military aircraft to Crimea.
According to British and American media reports, in fact, since the friction in the Kerch Strait between Russia and Ukraine occurred on November 25, Russia has been sending more military aircraft to the Crimea region adjacent to the Kerch Strait.

On the 12th local time, the British "Jane’s Defense Weekly" reported that the Russian Air Force had deployed an A-50 early warning aircraft to the Saki base on the west coast of Crimea. The A-50 early warning aircraft is a long-range early warning aircraft developed by Russia on the basis of the Il -76 transport platform. As the "air command post" of Russian national air defense system, A-50 early warning aircraft has a complete air early warning and control system.

Beriev A-50
Fox TV in the United States said in the form of an exclusive report that the satellite photos taken on the 8 th of this month showed that three main transport planes of the Russian Air Force, Il -76, were parked at the Zhankoy base in northern Crimea. The US media said that four Il-76s took off from Anapa Airport on the Black Sea coast of Russia on the 6th of this month and landed at the Zhankoy base, and one of them later returned. The Russian army mainly uses Il -76 to transport large and heavy goods that are difficult to transport on the ground; This type of transport aircraft can also be used to deploy a large number of troops. The elite force of Russian airborne troops — — The 7 th Guards Mountain Airborne Assault Division is based in Novorossiysk, not far from Anapa.