Ukraine’s army warns Russian vacationers — RT World Information

The Ukrainian army appeared to situation a veiled risk in opposition to Russian vacationers in search of to journey to Crimea this summer time, insisting the area belongs to Ukraine whereas suggesting guests is likely to be killed by shelling or air strikes.

The Protection Ministry took to Twitter on Thursday with a submit stating that “Until they need an unpleasantly scorching summer time break, we advise our valued Russian visitors to not go to Ukrainian Crimea,” additionally appending a video set to Bananarama’s ‘Merciless Summer time.’

“You had a number of choices this summer time: Palm Jumeirah Seashores, Antalya Resorts, Cuban Cabanas. You selected Crimea; large mistake. Time to go house,” the video says, at one level slicing between scenic pictures of the named vacationer locations and explosions erupting at Moscow’s Saki Air Base on the peninsula earlier this week.

The video additionally included footage of beachgoers in Crimea fleeing blasts, with giant plumes of smoke seen within the background because the folks scramble to security.

Whereas Kiev’s armed forces strongly insinuated it was behind the explosions, Russian officers have insisted the air base didn’t come underneath assault and that the blasts had been attributable to an unintentional detonation of ammunition. Native authorities confirmed that a minimum of one individual was killed within the incident.

Russia’s tourism trade affiliation, in the meantime, noticed that “in keeping with preliminary info, the explosion occurred distant from the vacationer zone,” with no casualties amongst guests or vacationers.

The predominantly Russian-speaking peninsula of Crimea was beforehand a part of Ukraine, however joined Russia again in 2014 following a referendum on reunification, which itself got here after the Maidan coup in Kiev. Since that point, the Saki Air Base has housed a Russian naval aviation unit assigned to the Black Sea Fleet, in keeping with RIA Novosti.

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