Putin Arrives In Crimea After Ukraine Incursion Claims: Agencies

Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published August 19, 2016 | 06:47 PM

MOSCOW, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th August, 2016) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday arrived in annexed Crimea, Russian news agencies reported, days after he accused Kiev of attempting an armed incursion into the peninsula.

Putin is to chair a meeting of his powerful security council in Crimea and visit a youth forum on his fifth visit to the strategic Black Sea peninsula since annexing it from Ukraine in March 2014. The visit comes after Putin last week lashed out at Kiev over an incident on the frontier between Crimea and Ukraine, accusing it of "practising terror" and sending a group of saboteurs into Crimea ahead of the elections. Two Russian officers were killed in the incident, in which Ukraine denied any involvement.