Moscow - A spokesman for the Simferopol airport in Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ihor Stratilati, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station early on Friday morning that the armed persons who had raided the airport were already outside of its premises.
Stratilati said that some 50 people holding Russian flags had broken into the premises of the airport.
“They thought that protest forces had landed there, but when they saw for themselves that there was no one there, they apologized and left,” he said.
The incident did not cause any disruption to the airport’s operations.
An Interfax correspondent said earlier that a group of armed men in military uniforms without identification signs had raided the Simferopol airport in Crimea
According to eyewitnesses, 50 or so armed people arrived at the airport in three KamAZ trucks without license plates and identification signs.
First, they sealed off the airport’s domestic flights terminal and then moved further into the premises of the airport.
