North Crimean city Dzhanka is surrounded by Russian tanks

The city of Dzhanka in the north of the annexed Crimea is cordoned off by the Russian military on tanks and other combat vehicles. This was announced to eyewitnesses to his FB page by the first deputy chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Jel.

A large number of Russian military equipment, the politician added, is also concentrated in the Armyansk area, located near the border of the region with continental Ukraine.

As the Crimea. Realities write , in the Razdolnensky and Black Sea regions of the peninsula, checkpoints are deployed, on which traffic cops are on duty along with machine gunners. The security forces stop the cars and arrange checks.

In the Black Sea district, to the resident’s question about the grounds for the audit, the traffic cop stated a certain “breakthrough on the border” of Crimea with continental Ukraine.

Blogger Elzar Abduramanova reports on checks in other places of the peninsula. In particular, many checkpoints are deployed on the way to Simferopol. In addition, checks are carried out on the Angarsk pass on the way to Yalta, as well as in the village of Duvanka (Verkhnesadovaya) within Sevastopol. In Saki, on the contrary, four traffic cops in body armor on duty on the traffic police post are not stopped or checked.

Helicopters fly over the border with continental Ukraine.

Prochrevskaya Komsomolskaya Pravda - Crimea handed over to a certain source in Russian power structures that on Sunday night the Ukrainian sabotage and intelligence group allegedly tried to penetrate the peninsula and shooting was heard in the Armenian area. “BTR and people in bulletproof vests go in the city,” the newspaper reports the interlocutor in Armenian. “There are rumors that one of the border guards was killed.”

According to AVDET, citing local taxi drivers, as well as users of social networks, at night there was a shootout in Yana -Kapu (formerly Krasnoperekopsk) - a city several kilometers south of Armyansk. As a result of the incident, one person died and three were injured.

After that, the “interception” plan was introduced in the region.

Meanwhile, the press secretary of the General Staff of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev noticed regarding the application for the penetration of the Ukrainian DRG into the Crimea that it "is provocative in nature and is not true." “Our units are in certain places and positions and are serving in planned mode. The task is to restrain the enemy’s aggression,” the official assured.

According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, at about 7 in the morning, Russian security forces stopped passing citizens and cars in both directions in all three checkpoints operating on the Crimean border and continental Ukraine without explanation.

At about 10:50 a.m., they also reported in the State Border Service, through the checkpoints through the Chongar checkpoint resumed. Meanwhile, the other two gearboxes - "Chaplynka" and "Kalanchak" - were still closed at that time.

Meanwhile, the "Center for Journalistic Investigations" soon after 13 hours reported that, according to the vice-governor of the Kherson region, Vadim Kuban, the reason for the closure of the checkpoint was the "rotation of military equipment" of Russians and "nothing more." “On our part, we pulled up to the border of our Ukrainian military,” the official added.

“In my opinion, this is such an answer (Russia - Ed.) To the military exercises that recently passed throughout Ukraine, including in the Kherson region,” the vice -governor suggested.

According to the shepherd, the Chongar checkpoint has already earned normally, and the “chaplyka” and “Kalanchak” began passing pedestrians.

However, the State Border Service of Ukraine reported that the pass of pedestrians and cars through the Chaplynka and Kalanchak checkpoint began only at about 14:30, and only in one direction to Crimea. It is still impossible to get to the continental Ukraine through these checkpoints.

Meanwhile, the Crimean human rights group reported that on Saturday to the Kerch station on the ferry crossing from the Kuban, a whole echelon of Russian military equipment arrived. In the evening, cars proceeded through the residential microdistricts of the city deep into the peninsula.

Russian military equipment goes through Kerch deep into the Crimea:

Later, on the website of the company "Marine Directorate" - the operator of the Kerch ferry crossing - there was a request to citizens "to refrain from traveling in the direction of the crossing from 7 to 9 August". The operator explained such a request to the “current peak loads”, which are caused by the “decision to strengthen measures aimed at ensuring the safety of citizens following the Kerch ferry crossing”.