Posted on 03/19/2014 8:41:13 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Pro-Russians storm Ukrainian navy base in Crimea
By Laura Smith-Spark, Nick Paton Walsh and Alla Eshchenko, CNN
updated 11:12 AM EDT, Wed March 19, 2014
Simferopol, Crimea (CNN) -- A day after Russia claimed Crimea as its own, there are signs the uneasy standoff between pro-Russian and Ukrainian forces could ignite into bloody conflict.
Almost 300 armed pro-Russian supporters took over the Ukrainian navy's headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Wednesday, said Marina Kanalyuk, assistant to the commander of Ukraine's navy fleet.
"They are everywhere here, they surround us, they threaten us," she said, adding that she was sure that Russian security forces were involved.
Kanalyuk said the 70 or so Ukrainian naval officers at the headquarters had tried to stop the armed men from entering and were negotiating with them. She said that the armed men had replaced Ukrainian flags with Russian ones but that no shots had been fired.
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... NATO Russia has broken Russia's natural allies former conquered territory's trust.
Thought I might correct that for you a bit.
Sounds like a great deal to me.....for the West.
NATO gets all of eastern Europe and Russia can rage about ‘losing’ all those entire countries that were never theirs in the first place. Russia gets to keep something that they already had and NATO can weep over a not getting their hands on a few square kilometres.
We’ve taken our eye off the ball in the Middle East. Watch closely there. That will be more likely the cause of me walking to work.
If you think that Europeans forgot your barbaric bombings in Yugoslavia, you're deadly wrong. THE LAST THING Europe wants is a shodown with Russia. And for your information, Europe continent ends at Ural Mountains, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Nijni Novgorod and Archangels are European cities! They won't build Europe against Russia, but WITH Russia. Ukraine IS in Europe, 7,000 miles away from US. I really don't see how it's America's business. Besides, Ukraine isn't even a member of NATO, they must get the hell out of there.
“If you think that Europeans forgot your barbaric bombings in Yugoslavia, you’re deadly wrong.”
As I suspected, there’s no way you’re an American. So, where you from and why do you hate the US so much?
I’ve read about what happens to POWs taken for bus or train rides by the Russians. Wonder when the mass graves will be found?
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