Russian Forces Storm Ukraine Naval Base In Crimea: Klitschko Calls For Ukraine Troop Withdrawal
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/19/2014
It only makes sense that now that Crimea is officially Russian territory once again, that the Russians would do with it as they see fit. Which they did. Overnight Russian troops and unarmed men stormed Ukraine’s naval headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol and raised the Russian flag in what Reuters described as “a tense but peaceful takeover that signals Moscow’s intent to neutralize any armed opposition.” Russian soldiers, and so-called “self-defense” units of mainly unarmed volunteers who are supporting them across the Black Sea peninsula, moved in early in the morning and quickly took control. But nowhere is the resignation within Ukraine’s acting political leadership more evident than in a statement just uttered by potential presidential candidate and former boxer, Vitali Klitschko:
UKRAINE GOVT SHOULD WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM CRIMEA, KLITSCHKO SAYS
More appeasement of Putin: will it result in the annexation of east Ukraine? Surely. The only question is when.
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