Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announces that unscheduled combat readiness checks have started involving the forces of Russia's southern military district and certain units of the Airborne Troops and military-transport aviation at the Russian border with Ukraine.
UNIAN: Snap combat readiness checks begin at Russia’s border with Ukraine
A Ukrainian border guard looks through binoculars on July 2, 2015 as he controls the barbed wire fence on the Senkivka border post, around 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
