Sky News reporter Yulia Bragina via Twitter:
MFA in Russia ordered it's consulate in Simferopol to give Russian passports to Berkut. Putin needs ppl who will do what they are told.
Moscow is going to hand out Russian passports to any one on the peninsula.
The Russian State Duma is drafting a federal law allowing any region that wishes to join Russia to do so either through plebiscite or through a decision of its Parliament.
Giving the Crimea legal grounds to accede to Russia.
Putin is sitting in the catbird seat right now playing the new rulers in Kiev and those in the West for fools.