Tembakan Peringatan Tentara Rusia kepada 300 Tentara Ukraina Tanpa Senjata
A Dozen Russian Soldiers Fired Warning Shots as 300 Unarmed Ukrainian Soldiers
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Belbek, Ukraina (B2B) - Pasukan Rusia mengeluarkan tembakan peringatan kepada tentara Ukraina di sebuah pangkalan militer dekat Sevastopol, Krimea, Selasa.
Tentara pro-Rusia yang menjaga sebuah lapangan udara di Belbek, dekat Sevastopol, mengeluarkan tembakan peringatan ke udara ketika 300-an serdadu Ukraina mendekat sekitar pukul 9.00 pagi waktu setempat (14.00 WIB), kata Oleksey Khramov, seorang perwira di pangkalan itu seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
"Mereka memuntahkan beberapa tembakan ke udara dan berkata bahwa mereka akan menembak langsung jika mereka (pasukan Ukraina) terus mendekat," kata dia.
Serdadu-serdadu Ukraina yang tidak bersenjata itu kemudian berhenti guna menghindari konfrontasi, sambung Khramov.
Dari tayangan televisi Inggris Sky Television, seorang tentara pro-Rusia mendekat ke para tentara Ukrania, lalu berkata, "Mundur. Saya ingin komandan kalian di sini! Kami akan tembakki kaki kalian."
Seorang tentara Ukraina menjawab, "Kamu akan bayar untuk ini semua, kalian harus bertanggungjawab."
Tentara Rusia itu kemudian berkata kepada para serdadu Ukraina untuk tenang dan menuduh tentara Ukraina memprovokasi mereka.
Seorang reporter di pangkalan itu mengatakan pasukan Ukraina itu kembali ke pos mereka dalam brigade terbang taktis Sevastopol di Belbek di mana puluhan tentara Ukraina bertahan dan menolak meninggalkan posnya.
Pasukan Rusia mengepung basis-basis militer Ukraina di seluruh penjuru Krimea setelah wilayah otonomi berbahasa Rusia itu terjerembab dalam kekacauan menyusul penggulingan Presiden Viktor Yanukovych.
Belbek - Russian forces fired warning shots on Ukrainian soldiers at a base near Sevastopol today as tensions flared in the standoff over Crimea.
Pro-Russian troops guarding an airfield in Belbek, near Sevastopol, fired the shots in the air as a column of about 300 Ukrainian troops approached around 9am, Oleksey Khramov, an officer at the base, said.
"They fired several shots into the air and said they would open fire if they continued to approach," he said.
The Ukrainian soldiers, who were unarmed, then stopped to avoid a confrontation, he said.
In footage of the incident shown on Britain´s Sky Television, a pro-Russian soldier told the approaching Ukrainians: "Hold back. I want your officer here! We´ll be shooting your legs."
A Ukrainian soldier replied: "You will pay for this, you´ll be held responsible."
The Russian soldier told the Ukrainian soldiers to "calm down" and accused them of "deliberately provoking us".
An AFP reporter at the base said the column of troops had since returned inside the administrative base of the Sevastopol tactical aviation brigade in Belbek, where dozens of Ukrainian soldiers are holed up refusing to abandon their posts.
Russian forces have surrounded Ukrainian military bases across Crimea as the Russian-speaking autonomous region has been thrown into turmoil following the ouster last month of Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovich.
