Rusland havde anvendt påstanden til at etablere en hurtig militær oprustning på Krim,<ref name="2016August" /> efterfulgt af øvelser og militær bevægelse nær den ukrainske grænse.<ref name="2016August">{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-build-and-around-ukraine-august-12-2016|title=russian build-up in and around ukraine|last=Weinberger|first=Kathleen|date=12. august 2016|work=foreignpolicy|access-date=2. september 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/31/dont-look-now-but-russias-got-ukraine-surrounded-crimea/|title=Putin's Military Is Playing the Long Game in Ukraine|last=Kofman|first=Michael|date=31. august 2016|work=foreignpolicy|access-date=2. september 2021}}</ref> Ukraines præsident Petro Poroshenko advarede om, at Rusland forbereder sig på en fuld invasion af Ukraine.<ref>{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33003237|title=Ukraine's Poroshenko warns of 'full-scale' Russia invasion|date=4. juni 2015|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=17. november 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde nyheder|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-poroshenko-idINKBN0OK0YA20150604|title=Ukraine's Poroshenko warns of threat of "full-scale invasion" from Russia|last=Balmforth|first=Richard|date=4. juni 2015|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=17. november 2020|last2=Polityuk|first2=Pavel|editor-last=Prentice|editor-first=Alessandra}}</ref>
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