Posted on 03/06/2014 5:40:12 PM PST by tcrlaf
RUSSIA has scuttled a decommisioned vessel in waters off the Crimean town of Myrnyi, effectively blocking access for five Ukrainian Naval ships harboured there.
In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, Ochakov, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside the Southern Naval Headquarters. Russian war vessels continue to patrol the coast.
The move by Russia’s navy comes amid reports that Ukrainian military in Crimea appear to be abandoning their bases.
In an extraordinary development to the crisis now politically engulfing most of Europe, the Crimean regional government declared Ukrainian soldiers to be enemy combatants and warned them to surrender and leave the region.
Troops at some barracks across the Crimea were heeding the warning and walking out of barracks through blockades of Russian troops and local “self defence” units.
Crimea Deputy Prime minister Rustam Temirgaliev said the soldiers could switch sides and don Russian military uniforms and take Russian citizenship, or just surrender and leave the “Russian state”. “If they do not agree, we are prepared to offer them safe passage from the territory of Crimea to their Ukrainian homeland,” he said.
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He wasn't deposed violently. He just fled the country and the duly elected parliament voted unanimously to remove him from office.
” He wasn’t deposed violently. He just fled the country and the duly elected parliament voted unanimously to remove him from office.”
You’ve just gobbled EVERYTHING the putschists from KIev said, and the American and European media repeated
Yanoukovich “didn’t fled the country”. He was on his way to Kharkov , when his car and his escort were shot at repeatedly. Yanukovich said he had only left Ukraine due to concerns about his safety: “Nobody has overthrown me. I was compelled to leave Ukraine due to a direct threat to my life and threats to my family.”
As for the “elected duly parliment”, it voted under duress with the armed Maidan militiamen surrounding the building. Lawmakers from Yanoukovich Party of the Regions were forced to fell on their knees and humiliated on Maidan Place. 55 of them were forced to vote for the destitution. It was far from being a regular vote. Besides the Ukrainian Parliment has NOT the power to depose the president, but only to vote his impeachment. The decision lies with the High Constitutional Court, but the putschistes closed it down!
Of course, you won’t hear the truth in the Western media, one have to make a lot of research on the internt to gather it and get the whole picture.
February 24, 2014 - Massive brawl erupts in Kiev, Ukraine at Rada, the “duly elected” parliament
How do you say in English - coup d’état?
“Stroke of state”.
takeover of the political power using violent means.
Yes. Quite right.
BBC February 22, 2014 - The duly elected ukrainian parliment
Fighting broke out between deputies in Ukraine’s parliament, when the speaker delayed a debate on a possible resolution calling for President Viktor Yanukovich’s powers to be reduced .The latest fighting followed scuffles, after which opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk addressed the parliament. One can see the nazi-svoboda deputies attacking the the others. Yarosh, the leader of the far-right coalition , is in the foreground.
February 26 Ukraine opposition leader (actually the idiot boxer who was “elected” the putchists’ president): “ We are ready to attack “
It was a coup d’etat. Nothing legitimate.
The Kiev president, prime minister and government are illegitimate.
Where are the enviromental waskos?
I don’t think the Russians sanitized that ship
before sinking it...
January 21, 2014
The future putchists’ “president” of Ukraine, Vitali Klitschko is sprayed with powder from a fire extinguisher by violent protesters, who battled the Ukrainian security forces in unprecedented clashes on Maidan Square.
Peaceful demonstrators, indeed.
Europe’s problem. Not in our backyard. US stay home don’t let Ukraine drain our treasury dry.
Some of these comments are completely delusional.
If the current Ukraine considers Crimea an autonomous state yet still part of the Ukraine, then Crimea’s legislative delegation should be able to question the Parliament’s legitimacy and command a sovereign state’s respect in their parliament. They should have their say and their rights in the new government.
Wait a minute.... the Ukrainian parliament filled with rebels banned their party and language. Never mind.
“Thus, the Ukraine’s only hope is for outside assistance.”
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Old Joe down at the sawmill read this and commented, “Dat bein’ da case, ah don’t thank dey got no hope.”
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