Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Su-27SM and Su-30M2 jets redeployed from Krasnodar Region's Krymsk airport to the renovated
Belbek airport in Crimea.
BELBEK, Crimea (Reuters) - More than a dozen SU-27 and SU-30 fighter jets which Russia is deploying to boost its air force, amid heightened tensions with Ukraine, arrived in Crimea on Saturday.
On February 26, Putin sent tens of thousands of Russian troops to the Ukrainian border for "military exercises." In Ukraine's Crimean region, Russian-speaking Ukrainians and Russian troops took over
Belbek airbase, and Russian naval vessels blocked and harassed Ukrainian ships.
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(19) Russia has replaced the aviation component of the Black Sea Fleet, landing its first fourteen multirole Sukhoi Su-27SM and Su-30 fighters at
Belbek Airport in Crimea.
LITTLE GREEN MEN Soldiers with no insignia besiege
Belbek air base in Crimea last March
Over the weekend, Russian troops stormed the
Belbek air force base near Sevastopol and detained the commander.
Mr Mamchur is the commander of the
Belbek Air Force base near Sevastopol, which was taken over on Saturday by forces who sent armoured personnel carriers smashing through the base's walls and fired shots and stun grenades.
Elite Russian troops firing into the air and backed by armoured vehicles had on Saturday stormed Ukraine's
Belbek airbase in Crimea after earlier taking other bases as well as naval vessels.
Mamchur commanded the
Belbek air force base near Sevastopol.