President Vladimir Putin says he'll beef up Russia's military force in Crimea, after Russia's security service claimed that it thwarted a would-be terrorist incursion from Ukraine over the weekend.The Federal Security Service, the FSB, said that teams of commandos from Ukraine's defense forces made two attempts to enter the Black Sea peninsula, with the intention of sabotaging vital infrastructure. The FSB said Ukrainian forces attempted to cover the infiltration by directing heavy fire at the Russian side, killing two Russian servicemen.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dismissed the Russian claims, calling them "fantasy" and a "provocation." Poroshenko issued a statement saying that Ukraine would never use terrorism to regain its occupied territory.The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, said the U.S. "has seen nothing so far that corroborates Russian allegations of a Crimea incursion."Russia's President Putin accused Ukrainian authorities of resorting to terror, instead
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