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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I think that really happen no bomb just control bombing here
3 minutes ago Mike Giglio of Buzzfeed writes: I’m in the center of Simferopol and didn’t hear any explosion, for what it’s worth. No one else around here seems to have noticed either
Thanks Maggie
709 you really do need to change your sources for news....BBC and Aljazeera aren’t exactly famous for telling it like it is....anymore than NPR. They pretty much play in the hands of the Globalists....and Aljazeer Arab and ME countries.
http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News
Members of Putin’s rights council say no grounds for Ukraine invasion
Majority of advisory body urge Moscow not to invade Ukraine Some Russian liberals concerned at prospect of war against “brother nation”
By Steve Gutterman
MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) - Members of President Vladimir Putin’s human rights council urged him on Sunday not to invade Ukraine, saying threats faced by Russians there were far from severe enough to warrant sending in troops. (Full Story)
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Loyal to Ukraine, Tatars lie low as Russia seizes Crimea
By Alissa de Carbonnel
BAKHCHISARAY, Ukraine, March 2 (Reuters) - Only five days ago, Tatars of Ukraine’s Crimea came out in their thousands, chanting Allahu Akbar in a show of loyalty to the new authorities in Kiev and opposition to separatist demands by the region’s Russian ethnic majority.
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Yeah I know that only cats they covering right now especially on my Verzion FIOS news package
CNN inernatioal has rerun of now fired Pier Morgan on Sunday and Fox news it all lifestyle network on Sunday afternoon
Right now SO CAL Media covering Oscars
BBC now reporting:
A loud bang was heard about 23:10 local time (21:10 GMT), following by a smaller blast, BBC reporters in Simferopol say. A city resident blogged about hearing an explosion come from the direction of Elevatornaya Street, where an electronic combat military unit is based.
Tartars are lying low for HOW LONG Maggie LOL!
NOt going take much LOL!
More on the reported explosions:
Miller MENA in the center of Simferopol now. No explosions. Ppl on street said it was one guy with firework or sound grenade.
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 2, 2014
Not heard the two reported explosions in Simferopol. @ukrpravda_news and @rykov both saying it was stun grenades. Quiet in the center
— max seddon (@maxseddon) March 2, 2014
Earlier, many Russian troops were surrounding Ukrainian military bases that refused to surrender. Stating the obvious, unless something has changed, if the Russian troops are storming these bases, it is unlikely that two sound grenades would be enough to do the trick.
Christopher Miller of Kyiv Post reporting: “In the center of Simferopol now. No explosions. Ppl on street said it was one guy with firework or sound grenade. /u/uptodatepronto
Pierre Crom
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Pierre Crom @PierreCrom 9m
I heard a big explosion when walking back to my hotel room in #Simferopol #Ukraine Who knows what happened?
Stun grenades? Fireworks??
It almost midnight in Ukraine that wake anybody up LOL!
Russian news source:
RT @RT_com 54s
MORE: Defense Ministry to be formed soon, says PM of the Autonomous Republic of #Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov http://on.rt.com/bjed42 #Ukraine
RT @RT_com 21m
UPDATE: More officials willing to swear allegiance to Crimean people in the near future, #Crimea Prime Minister says http://on.rt.com/s05i6k
Merkel to the Rescue....Heroine coming...Putin Agrees to meet!
Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted a proposal by Chancellor Angela Merkel to set up a “contact group” aimed at facilitating dialogue in the Ukraine crisis, the German government said on Sunday.
“President Putin accepted the German chancellor’s proposal to immediately establish a mission of enquiry as well as a contact group, possibly under the direction of the the United Nations Security Council or OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), to open a political dialogue,” German government spokesman Georg Streiter said in a statement.
Merkel raised the idea in a phone conversation late Sunday in which she accused Putin of breaking international law with the “unacceptable Russian intervention in Crimea.”
A Kremlin statement said Putin defended Russia’s action against “ultranationalist forces” in Ukraine and insisted measures taken so far were “fully adequate,” the Associated Press reported.
It said Putin directed Merkel’s attention to the “unrelenting threat of violence” to Russian citizens and the Russian-speaking population.
However, it didn’t mention specifically Merkel’s proposal, but highlighted the need to continue “consultations in both a bilateral ... and multilateral format with the aim of cooperating to normalize the socio-political station in Ukraine.”
Merkel told Putin the intervention was a violation of a 1994 Budapest memorandum on security assurances in which Russia committed itself to respecting the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine in its existing borders, as well as the 1997 treaty on the Russian Black Sea fleet, based in Crimea, Agence France-Presse reported.
The memorandum was signed by Britain, Ukraine, Russia and the United States.
The statement said Merkel called on Putin to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-ukraine-crisis-germany-g-idUSBREA210Q620140302
German foreign minister against excluding Russia from G8
EXCERPT
Germany is heavily dependent on Russia for its natural gas needs, and is the biggest export market of Russia’s state-controlled gas producer Gazprom.
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