A detachment of volunteers is being formed in Ivano-Frankivsk in case of a Russian invasion

• In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
• July 22, 2020 Trilateral Contact Group agreed the regime a complete and comprehensive ceasefire in the Donbas since midnight on 27 July. At the beginning of 2021, the situation in Donbass worsened. The Joint Forces operation headquarters has repeatedly reported that the enemy is firing sniper fire. In February, the first president of Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Leonid Kravchuk said, what “there is simply no truce “.
• On April 1, the Office of the President of Ukraine reported that from the beginning of 2021 the Russian occupation troops in the Donbas violated the ceasefire more than 570 times… Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine Yulia Mendel said on April 11 that this year already killed 26 Ukrainian servicemen, On April 12th and 13th were killed two more.
• In late March – early April, the media and eyewitnesses began to publish video evidence that Russia was actively transfers military equipment to Crimea across the Kerch bridge and pulls troops to the border with Ukraine.
• On March 30, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ruslan Khomchak confirmed that the Russian Federation builds up troops near the border with Ukraine and in the occupied Crimea, which “poses a threat to the military security of the state.” Ukrainian intelligence said that Russia wants to expand military presence on the territory controlled by the “DPR” and “LPR” militants through the introduction of regular units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, and did not rule out an attempt to move Russian troops deep into the territory of Ukraine.
• According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, the current escalation by the Russian Federation in Donbass is the largest in recent years… According to White House and US State Department, the number of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine is the largest since 2014. Mendel on April 12 said that on the eastern border with Ukraine, the Russian Federation deployed more than 40 thousand military personnel, the same number of Russian troops are in the occupied Crimea.
• Due to the escalation of the situation in Donbass, the US command in Europe announced maximum availability.
• Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on April 13 admitted that to the “western frontiers” of Russia transferred two armies and three formations of airborne troops… According to him, they are participating in the “control check of the troops.” Shoigu also said that Russia is “taking action” in response to NATO’s “threatening military activities”.

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