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UNIAN: Ukraine Navy holds artillery drills near de facto border with Crimea

By UNIAN.

Published June 27, 2018 at 4:17 pm

Crimean Tatars flag waves at the ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1944 deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, at Sofiivska Square in Kyiv on May 18.

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Artillerymen of the Ukrainian Navy’s Armed Forces have conducted drills near the administrative border with the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

The purpose is practicing defense of the sea coast and engaging the enemy that is on the offensive from the occupied territories, according to the press center of the command of the Ukrainian Navy’s Armed Forces.