Kyiv says Russia sending better-equipped troops to Crimea:
Kyiv says that Russia has amassed more troops in recent days equipped with more modern equipment on Ukraine's border with Russian-occupied Crimea
Oleh Slobodyan, the spokesman for the Ukrainian border guards, said on August 11 that "we can unequivocally say that Russian troops who were there since March are now being replaced with others."
"These troops are coming with more modern equipment and there are air-assault units. In recent days, we see a strengthening of the units that are at the border. Their number increased," Slobodyan said. (Reuters)