Shooting and explosions have been
heard as Russian troops backed by armoured vehicles stormed a Ukrainian airbase
in Crimea.
Reports say at least one person was injured during the assault on Belbek
base, near Sevastopol. The base is now said to be under Russian control.
Earlier, several hundred unarmed protesters seized a Ukrainian naval base at
Novofedorivka, western Crimea.
Pro-Russian militia have also been seizing Ukrainian navy ships.
The BBC's Ian Pannell, in Crimea, says the Ukrainian troops on the peninsula
feel beleaguered and abandoned by their commanders in Ukraine.
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law formalising Russia's
takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the
US.
'All is in smoke'
In Belbek, two armoured personnel carriers burst through the wall of the base
followed by Russian troops firing weapons in the air.
An ambulance was then seen entering the base amid reports that at least one
person was injured.
The Ukrainian soldiers were later gathered at the base main square in front
of the heavily armed Russian troops.
The storming followed an ultimatum by the Russians to surrender.
3 comments:
It´s time for Putin to send the tanks into the East-Ukraine and secure Russian enclaves whereever an ethnic Russian stronghold exists. Like Israel and its settlements in Palestine or like America with its bases around the globe. Putin must liberate these Russian enclaves and fortify them against the EU-terrorists and dictators in Kiev with tanks and rocket-shields. A supply corridor will have to be arranged like the one to the Baltic nations for the EU. Putin is the greatest statesman of the century and the only one who can stop the EU aggression.
After Crimea joined Russia, Eastern Ukraine will do the same. In fact it is long overdue. Eastern Ukraine is mostly Russians and is where the heavy industries, mines and natural resources of the country are, and its people wan nothing to do with the neo-Nazi interim government in Kiev. I believe the Russians should give West Ukraine to the West, since there is nothing of value there and its people are trash, neo-Nazis, fascists, and ultra-right elements, and plutocrats of the type of Julia Timoshenko. This is how Castro get rid-off of the trash of Cuba . You want to go to your beloved America? Here you go! and open the gates of the prisons with common criminals and others load them into boats and off they went to Maiami
the reporting here leaves something to be desired.the lead in, stating russian soliders have engaged ukraine forces is not true.pro russian forces are not russian soliders they are ukraine military who are being annexed and obviously pro russian.just report the news dont create it.
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