Posted on 03/01/2014 7:10:27 AM PST by maggief
Simferopol, Ukraine (CNN) -- [Breaking News Update, 10:02 a.m. ET] (CNN) -- Russia's upper house of parliament voted Saturday to approve the use of military force in Ukraine. The vote was unanimous.
[Original Story, published 9:23 a.m. ET]
(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the upper house of parliament for approval to send Russian troops into Ukraine's Crimea region to normalize the political situation there, the Kremlin said Saturday.
Due to the "extraordinary situation in Ukraine," Putin said, there are threats to the lives of Russian citizens and Russian military personnel based in the southern Crimean region.
It comes on the same day that the new pro-Russian leader of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, asked Putin for help in maintaining peace in the Black Sea peninsula -- where Russia has a major naval base at Sevastopol.
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Ukraine navy chief fired for treason after defecting to pro-Russian authorities in Crimea http://itv.co/1hnoyfa
William Hague @WilliamJHague
Arrived in Kyiv. Will be meeting leaders from across Ukrainian politics tonight
The Night Wolves are Russia’s largest motorbike club, with over 5,000 members.....Fiercely patriotic, they believe that “wherever the Night Wolves are, that should be considered Russia”.....On Saturday, the Night Wolves organised a mass ride from the northeast of Ukraine through the Russian speaking eastern regions to the Crimea.
Read the book Eleena. Written by her son about the communist take over of Greece. And his mothers sacrifice ( her life) to get children to freedom
Replacing the people of power was the first move. The hung or otherwise killed them in front of the villagers. At least it does not appear that Pute is using that technique
just now BBC: UK PM David Cameron says he will talk about the situation in Ukraine with his US, Polish and Lithuanian counterparts this evening /u/uptodatepronto
9 minutes ago For those that missed it, Russia Today was hacked during the night last night: Source One title was changed to:
“Russian senators vote to use stabilizing Nazi forces on #Ukrainian territory”
/u/uptodatepronto
14 minutes ago This is the link for the Statement to the media by the NATO Secretary General - watch live - (Has not started yet) /u/uptodatepronto
18 minutes ago NBC: GOP Members of Congress Slam Obama Response to Ukraine Crisis - Source
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said “Every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody’s eyes roll, including mine. We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression.”
My gut tells me the surrounding nations and the International Community may very well let Crimea go to Putin when all is said and done.....who is going to stop him? There is none.
So far all the International Community has done is talk as usual....I don’t expect Europe nor the U.S. to step into this fray outside diplomatic sanction threats...even then they will not go so far as to stop the flow of oil through Ukraine....
Putin has made some very smart moves regardless of the outcry, and he’s likely to secure Crimea for himself.
If 0 keeps this up we will all be able to see Russia from our windows !
Putan will do whatever it takes to keep these ports etc under his control. So its simply a matter of caving now or later. Need a competent negotiator to settle everyone down and appease both sides. That is certainly not 0 or his crew
....”David Cameron says he will ‘talk about’ the situation in Ukraine with his US, Polish and Lithuanian counterparts this evening “.....
Believe me this is more about securing the flow of oil to Europe then it is about Putins moves. They will not risk the flow of oil to their countries.
Crimea ... and beyond?
Posted earlier ...”Ukraine’s prime minister has warned that Russia is not merely threatening Ukraine.”
Exactly....They’ll have to cave and let Crimea go to Putin...especially since 90% of the people there want to be Russian controlled and oppose the Ukrainian Gov.
If Theses ports and the oil lines were ours we would be doing the same thing Putin’s doing amid the Ukraine upheavals. Secure what’s ours regardless of the International outcry.
However, Obama wouldn’t ..he’s no clue nor desire of how to handle this but come out smelling like a rose if he can...and he’s way past blowing the stench off himself in the eyes of the International Community.
About 80 percent of Russian gas exports to Europe pass through Ukraine. Europe, in turn, depends on Russia for 40 percent of its imported fuel.
According to Mikhail Korchemkin, head of East European Gas Analysis, a consulting firm in Pennsylvania, the most important pipelines that run through Ukraine are the ones leading to Slovakia. They will eventually take gas to Germany, Austria and Italy.
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ЄВРОМАЙДАН @euromaidan 36m #Ukraine: MT @grajewski_luk: Pro-#Russia "protesters" in Luhansk (East Ukr) paid for "protest" for Putin invasion pic.twitter.com/2JcUfASc17
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