BELBEK, Ukraine — Russian soldiers on Tuesday fired warning shots at a group of Ukrainian soldiers who marched unarmed toward their heavily equipped counterparts in an attempt to reclaim their airbase that had been seized a day earlier.
The column of some 100 Ukrainian military pilots, led by Col. Yuli Mamchur, stopped their advance at Pokryshkin airbase in Belbek, in Ukraine’s Crimea region, only after the Russians trained their rifles on the group
The soldiers remained there — under the close watch of Russian elite forces armed with machine guns rifles and mortars and blocked by military jeeps — throughout the afternoon as negotiations between Mamchur and a man known only as “Roman” took place behind Russian lines. Read more…
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