Ukraine's president put his army on combat alert Thursday along the
country's de-facto borders with Crimea and separatist rebels in the east
as a war of words between Russia and Ukraine threatened to heat up the
largely frozen conflict over the Black Sea peninsula.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued the
order after Moscow accused his country of sending in "saboteurs" to
carry out attacks in Crimea.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014
following a hastily called referendum, a move that sparked fighting
between Russia-backed separatists and government forces in eastern
Ukraine. The conflict in the east has killed over 9,500 people and is
still ongoing.
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