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come down to side of (кого-либо); side with (On Sunday morning reports said Russian military servicemen had seized weapons from a radar base and naval training facility in Ukraine's Crimea region where they urged personnel to side with the peninsula's "legitimate" leaders; while other Russian troops were said to have removed weapons from a Ukrainian navy training centre in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol  diplomat.am 4uzhoj); defect to the side of (A group of soldiers was reported to have defected to the side of the protesters. • Shoigu ... was shown meeting with Ukrainian officers who defected to the side of pro-Russian local authorities. • Ruslan Yamadayev fought against the Russian army during Chechnya's separatist war in the 1990s, but defected to the Kremlin side during the second war, which began in 1999. theguardian.com 4uzhoj); fall over (кого-л.) |
