http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/24783/2/
Ukraine’s Navy refuses orders from Kiev, defects to Russia
Saturday, 01 March 2014
Ukraine’s Navy flagship, the Hetman Sahaidachny frigate, has reportedly refused to follow orders from Kiev, and come over to Russia’s side and is returning home after taking part in NATO operation in the Gulf of Aden flying the Russian naval flag.
There has been conflicting information on where exactly the vessel is, but a Russian senator has confirmed to Izvestia daily that the frigate defected to the Russian side.
Battleship Potemkin, Part Dva.
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/01/congress-russia-sanctions/5928599/
Members of Congress, most of whom had left Washington for the weekend, responded in kind but stopped short of advocating any direct military action.
The ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, called for immediate sanctions against Russia.
“Vladimir Putin is seizing a neighboring territory — again — so President Obama must lead a meaningful, unified response,” Corker said in a statement.
Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., took a different approach, advocating for “a robust international economic assistance package” — including loan guarantees — for Ukraine. Engel, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, said the Russian parliament’s moves “are acts of aggression that violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., another member of the committee, went further. Not only should the United States recall its ambassador to Russia, he said, but it should revoke visas and freeze assets of anyone associated with the Putin regime, supply military assistance to Ukraine and boot Russia from the G-8 group of industrialized nations.
Cotton’s statement also revealed a bit of domestic politics, blaming “President Obama’s trembling inaction” for the crisis. Cotton, who’s running for a Senate seat, compared Russian aggression in Crimea to the German annexation of Austria in 1938 and suggested that U.S. officials were downplaying the seriousness of the situation.
Democrats, however, said Putin alone was responsible for the crisis. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., tweeted, “Situation in Ukraine is now very grave. Putin is playing (with) fire in the Crimea.”
Shouldn’t be surprising really....we are watching the “sides” being chosen among the powers at hand...they are not going to get the Chimea people to side with Ukrainian’s desire to go Europe. They are clearly loyal to Russia if they have a choice in the matter.
Shouldn’t be surprising really....we are watching the “sides” being chosen among the powers at hand...they are not going to get the Chimea people to side with Ukrainian’s desire to go Europe. They are clearly loyal to Russia if they have a choice in the matter.