
In the North Crimean city of Dzhankoy, cordoned off the day before by the Russian military on tanks and other combat vehicles, the Internet is disconnected. The blogger Elzar Abduramanova announced this with reference to local residents at her FB page.
It is claimed that the network will remain inaccessible for about a day "for technical reasons." At the same time, different local providers say that the Internet is blocked in other areas of the Northern Crimea.
Blogger Vasily Crimea, in a commentary on the publication of Abduramanova, partially confirmed the information of the providers, noting that there is unverified information about the disconnection of the Internet and in Armenian - the city near the boundaries of the annexed region with continental Ukraine.
Meanwhile, on Monday night on the FB page "Gromadske. Crime", facsimiles of an “important announcement”, widespread by Russia by the administration of the Novoklymsky “rural settlement” (village council) of the Dzhankoy district, appeared . The paper claims that the security forces are looking for a certain serious crime of four persons in camouflage with the stripes of the Russian army.
The suspects can move both on foot and by cars and they have firearms. All four, the paper says - Slavic appearance. Some signs of two of the wanted ones are also given; To both, as follows from the ad, 30-35 years.
On the afternoon of Monday, Vasily Crimea published Facsimiles of another document - orientation, signed by the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea, Colonel Sergey Abisov, who was sent on Sunday to the district police department. This paper is not about four, but about five suspects.
The blogger drew attention to the rhomboid chevrons mentioned in both documents on the camouflage of those wanted. "The rhomboid Chevron is a sign of belonging to the FSB (or border service as a structural unit of the FSB)," he remarked.
The Ukrainian military expert Igor Romanenko, who, in the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, who held the post of deputy chief of the General Staff, in the commentary "112 - Ukrainian" suggested : "In the area of Armenian (Russian troops conducting large exercises in the north of Crimea. - Ed.) There was an incident, and they catch those involved in it."
Meanwhile, the State Border Service of Ukraine on Monday morning reported that around midnight the Russian security forces again stopped passing people and cars through the checkpoint located opposite the Ukrainian Kalanchak checkpoint on the annexed Crimea. Through the Saplynka checkpoint, the pass is still carried out only in one direction - on the peninsula - and the Chongar checkpoint performs throughput operations in both directions, but very slowly.
It is also reported that during August 7, the flights of nine Russian military helicopters Mi-8 and two drones were recorded over the border of Crimea with continental Ukraine.
According to "Crimea. Realities" with reference to citizens awaiting the checkpoint of their turn to get to the peninsula, on the night of August 8, shooting was heard from the Crimea. Ukrainian border guards periodically launched signal missiles. The drivers demanded to close the doors of the cars and turn off the light.
At the same time, the press secretary of the Ukrainian State Border Service Oleg Slobodyan in the commentary said that "there were no such incidents controlled by Ukraine using weapons."
After lunch on Monday, blogger Alim Idamak placed two videos made earlier on the same day on his YouTube channel. One demonstrated the movement of coastal Bastion missile systems to a training ground under the old Crimea. Another video was recorded by the movement of Russian military equipment, including Iskander missile systems, on the bypass road Simferopol -Yalta.
Meanwhile, the Crimean human rights group in the evening of August 8 reported checkpoints in Kerch, on the road to the ferry crossing to Russian Kuban. There are machine gunners by the road. Traffic cops stop cars and, without explanation, requires to present documents; Cars are also examined selectively. Because of this, a 5-kilometer traffic jam formed at the crossing.
In other areas of Kerch, checkpoints with machine gunners are also deployed. Military equipment, including BTR'y, travels through residential quarters.
The surroundings of Dzhankoy with Russian combat vehicles became known the day before . The concentration of a large number of military equipment in the Armyansk area was also reported.
In the northern and western parts of the Crimea, many checkpoints were deployed, on which machine gunners were on duty. As part of the Interception plan, the security forces stopped the cars and arranged checks. At the same time, they motivated their actions with a certain “breakthrough on the border” with continental Ukraine.
Prochrevskaya Komsomolskaya Pravda - Crimea passed that on Sunday the Ukrainian sabotage and intelligence group tried to penetrate the peninsula and shooting was heard in the Armyansk area. However, the press secretary of the General Staff of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev noted that this statement "is provocative in nature and is not true."
In turn, Avdet reported a night shootout in Yana -Kapu (formerly Krasnoperekopsk) - a city several kilometers south of Armyansk. It was claimed that as a result of the incident, one person died and three were injured.
Around 7 am Sunday, 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. Later, the pass was resumed, but only partially.