SIMFEROPOL. Nov 27 (Interfax) - Three motor checkpoints at Crimean section of Russian-Ukrainian border are working as usual on Tuesday morning, a representative of the Crimea branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB)'s Border Service told Interfax.
"Travelers and vehicles are passing through the three checkpoints in the north of the peninsula, namely Armyansk, Dzhankoi, and Perekop, in the regular mode," the representative said.
There are no lines on the border.
In the evening of November 26, the Verkhovna Rada enforced President Petro Poroshenko's order that declared 30-day martial law in ten regions of the country (including the Kherson region bordering Crimea) and internal waters of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. Poroshenko can declare partial mobilization if necessary.
The decision followed the incident in the Kerch Strait. On November 25, Russian border guards had to fire their weapons to detain three ships of the Ukrainian Navy - the Yany Kapu tugboat and two armored artillery boats Berdyansk and Nikopol - headed from Odesa in the Black Sea to Mariupol in the Sea of Azov. The Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal case under Part 3, Article 322 of the Russian Criminal Code (illegal crossing of the state border).
Twenty-four Ukrainian Navy men were detained, including three injured. The injured have been taken to a hospital in Kerch, and the detainees are being questioned by investigators.
The sides traded accusations of provocations.