Russian forces in Crimea on high alert ahead of test:
Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reports that Russian air-defense forces in the Crimea region have been placed on high alert on the eve of planned Ukrainian missile tests near the Black Sea peninsula.
Moscow has protested the tests planned for December 1-2 near Crimea, which Russia seized and illegally annexed from Ukraine in March 2014.
Russia's Foreign Ministry on November 30 called the planned missile tests a "new large-scale provocation," saying they were aimed at "escalating the conflict between Ukraine and Russia."
A map of the upcoming Crimea missile test: