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Ukrainian military abandoning bases in Crimea after being warned they are now “enemy combatants”
News Corp Australia ^ | 3-7-14 | Charles Miranda

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crimea; crimeacrisis; russia; ukraine
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To: Marguerite
What is illegitimate and unconstitutional - is the deposition by violence of a leader legitimally and democratically elected.

He wasn't deposed violently. He just fled the country and the duly elected parliament voted unanimously to remove him from office.

41 posted on 03/08/2014 3:39:54 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

” 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.


42 posted on 03/08/2014 4:35:46 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Paleo Conservative

February 24, 2014 - Massive brawl erupts in Kiev, Ukraine at Rada, the “duly elected” parliament

http://youtu.be/4bQZmnH36yo

How do you say in English - coup d’état?


43 posted on 03/08/2014 4:46:27 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite

“Stroke of state”.


44 posted on 03/08/2014 4:49:17 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

takeover of the political power using violent means.


45 posted on 03/08/2014 4:54:55 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Marguerite

Yes. Quite right.


46 posted on 03/08/2014 4:57:56 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: All

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.

http://youtu.be/U3nyWMMKp9g

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.

http://youtu.be/hAnQYH5fiHo


47 posted on 03/08/2014 5:26:58 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: tcrlaf

Where are the enviromental waskos?
I don’t think the Russians sanitized that ship
before sinking it...


48 posted on 03/08/2014 5:32:29 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: All

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.

http://youtu.be/J6rE55RRvpI

Peaceful demonstrators, indeed.


49 posted on 03/08/2014 5:46:12 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: tcrlaf

Europe’s problem. Not in our backyard. US stay home don’t let Ukraine drain our treasury dry.


50 posted on 03/08/2014 5:50:53 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Zhang Fei

Some of these comments are completely delusional.


51 posted on 03/08/2014 5:53:20 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Rashputin

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.


52 posted on 03/09/2014 8:41:23 AM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: Thunder90

“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.”


53 posted on 03/10/2014 5:48:38 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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