Members of pro-Russian self-defence units hold Russian and Crimean flags during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air defence forces in Crimea have been placed on high alert on the eve of planned Ukrainian missile tests near the Black Sea peninsula, the TASS news agency cited a Crimean military source as saying on Wednesday.
Moscow has protested against the plans to carry out the tests near Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
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