Russia restores abandoned Soviet missile bunkers along Crimean coast in latest sign that Putin is preparing for World War Three
The crumbling bunkers were formerly used for defence against naval attack from the Black Sea during the Cold War
Until recently the site was a tourist destination, costing $50 to visit
Now it is ‘a functioning military base’, according to villagers
Russia and NATO are both boosting their military capabilities across eastern Europe
DailyMail.com
1 November 2016
Until recently, missile bunkers along Crimea’s southern coast were a destination for tourists, costing $50 to visit.
But the crumbling and abandoned former Soviet sites, which served during the Cold War as a defence against naval attack from the Black Sea, are coming back online.
Known locally as Object 100, signs placed around the site warn visitors against entering a ‘forbidden zone of the Russian Ministry of Defence’.
A resident of a nearby village, close to the Simferopol site, who said he was employed at the base last year said Russian soldiers had re-occupied the sites and blocked roads leading into the area. He was unable to say when the Russian soldiers arrived.
‘It is a functioning military base with an anti-ship missile system,’ the villager told a Reuters reporter who visited the area in July.
The bunkers are just one small part of a new Russian programme to militarise the Crimean peninsula. Based on recent site observations by Reuters, accounts from locals, media reports and official Russian data, Moscow has reanimated multiple Soviet-built facilities in the region, built new bases and stationed soldiers there.
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