The representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, Vadym Skibitskyi said this, Krym.Realii reports.
"Measures were carried out in the Black Sea Fleet. Those personnel who are not directly involved and have auxiliary functions were redeployed from the Black Sea Fleet headquarters to Novorossiysk. We do not rule out that some warships and supply ships will be moved from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk as well. To avoid strikes. As for the movements, the grouping in Crimea has not changed on the Crimean peninsula, apart from the fact that aviation has been redeployed, its concentration on airfields of the Russian Federation, and air defense has been strengthened due to the transfer of additional air defense forces and means," he noted.
According to Skibitskyi, the Russian troops in Crimea began to "take a more careful approach to such concepts as terrorist threat and threat from the air, as well as they constantly practice these issues during exercises."