Russia is deploying tanks to Crimea to defend peninsula — Atesh guerillas

The Atesh guerrilla movement reported the information.

"According to our information, 31 tanks have recently arrived in Yevpatoria, which tells us that an entire tank battalion is being redeployed," the statement said.

It noted that one of the guerrillas managed to communicate with one of the officers of this unit: "From the dialog, we managed to find out that the tank battalion was transferred to the territory of Crimea as part of the strengthening of the Crimean group."

• Activists of the Atesh guerrilla movement have established that Russian troops are preparing to repel attacks by Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol.