President Poroshenko accuses the rebels of jeopardising "the entire peace process" and says Ukrainian forces should prepare defences against separatist attack.
Unable to predict the point of invasion, Brock frantically worked to prepare defences throughout Upper Canada.
Hamas has used its time as master of Gaza - it drove out the rivals Fattah organisation from the strip in 2007 - to prepare defences against an Israeli incursion.
On 10 November the regiment, now ten officers and 286 other ranks, returned to Gallipoli, to prepare defences at "Waterfall Gully".
Belgrano was appointed as captain of the urban militias in 1797 by viceroy Pedro de Melo, who was instructed by Spain to prepare defences against a possible British or Portuguese attack.
Later that day, as the situation was becoming increasingly desperate throughout the country, Dušan Simović, who was both the Prime Minister and Yugoslav Chief of the General Staff, broadcast the following message: The bulk of the 1st Army were able to cross the Danube and began to prepare defences.
"We are prepared," Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel told the BBC.
As markets fall back after poor Chinese export figures, Burberry is bucking the trend following reports the luxury goods group is preparing defences against a possible bid.
This week South Korea's prickly neighbour announced that it has officially scrapped (after unofficially violating for years) a joint agreement to keep the peninsula nuclear-free, and is preparing defences "to destroy aggressors at a single stroke".
So the report recommended preparing defences: building up coal stocks and recruiting in advance non-union lorry drivers who would be willing to defy picket lines and move supplies around the country.
