Ukraine crisis live: Russia admits its troops are moving in Crimea

[MerryBlooms]

Russian foreign ministry admits to entering Crimea from its Black Sea Fleet base as the Ukraine's interior minister accuses country of 'armed invasion'

17.06 Russia has just said it will give Russian passports to Ukraine's disbanded riot police.

16.57 A video has emerged to purports to show 12 Russian-combat helicopters (MI-24 & MI-8 3) flying over Sevastopol in Crimea.

16.51 The Foreign Office alert warns against all travel to Crimea, and says British nationals already there should leave by commercial means.

More:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10666893/Ukraine-crisis-live-Russia-admits-its-troops-are-moving-in-Crimea.html

[polly7]

1. A little more on Crimea ....

Carnival in Crimea

by Pepe Escobar / February 28th, 2014

Time waits for no one, but apparently will wait for Crimea. The speaker of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, has confirmed there will be a referendum on greater autonomy from Ukraine on May 25.

Until then, Crimea will be as hot and steamy as carnival in Rio because Crimea is all about Sevastopol, the port of call for the Russian Black Sea fleet.

If the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a bull, this is the red flag to end all red flags. Even if you’re deep in alcohol nirvana dancin’ your troubles away at carnival in Rio — or New Orleans, or Venice, or Trinidad and Tobago — your brain will have registered that NATO’s ultimate wet dream is to command a Western puppet Ukrainian government to kick the Russian navy out of its base in Sevastopol. The negotiated lease applies until 2042. Threats and rumors of reneging it have already emerged.

The absolute majority of the Crimean peninsula is populated by Russian speakers. Very few Ukrainians live there. In 1954, it took only 15 minutes for Ukrainian Nikita Krushchev — he of the banging shoe at the UN floor — to give Crimea as a free gift to Ukraine (then part of the USSR). In Russia, Crimea is perceived as Russian. Nothing will change that fact.


Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/02/carnival-in-crimea/#more-53152
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[loli phabay]

2. kiev has got to see that there will be a split, now is it worth a war with russia to keep people

who dont want to stay or do you lose landmass and let them go.