Month: March 2014

By Chris Pleasance and Luke Garratt

PUBLISHED: 14:44 GMT, 8 March 2014 | UPDATED: 19:55 GMT, 8 March 2014

Tension in Ukraine builds as convoy of 60 unmarked military trucks carrying hundreds of soldiers heads for Crimea as pro-Russian troops fire warning shots at peace monitors

• Convoy of 60 vehicles carrying hundreds of troops spotted in Crimea
• Vehicles were unmarked by registration plates suggest they are Russian
• Another convoy was tailed to a military base which was flying Russian flag
• Ukrainian military reports up to 200 vehicles landed from boats last night
• Warning shots have also been fired at international soldiers
  
• Troops were trying to enter Crimea but were told they had no authorisation
• Meanwhile Sergei Lavrov said crisis was ‘created artificially’
• He denounced the Ukrainian government as right-wing radicals
• Ukrainian plane came under fire flying at 3000 ft near border with Crimea
• Russian warships blockaded Black Sea, where Ukrainian navy is docked
• There are now estimated to be 30,000 Russian troops in Ukraine

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576275/Shots-fired-international-monitors-refused-entry-Crimea-Russias-foreign-minister-says-crisis-created-artificially-geopolitical-reasons.html#ixzz2vWCt2fJE

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Michael Mainville
AFP
March 9, 2014

Russian flags flooded Lenin Square in the centre of Crimea’s capital Simferopol Sunday as thousands rallied in support of Moscow’s takeover of the peninsula — vastly overwhelming a smaller pro-Ukraine demonstration nearby.

The rival rallies in Simferopol were peaceful, in contrast to the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, where about 100 pro-Russians with clubs and whips attacked some 20 people who were guarding a pro-Ukraine rally.

Some 10,000 people joined read more

By Andrew Osborn SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine Sun Mar 9, 2014 7:09pm EDT Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140309

(Reuters) – Germany’s Angela Merkel delivered a rebuke to President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, telling him that a planned Moscow-backed referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia was illegal and violated Ukraine’s constitution.

Putin defended breakaway moves by pro-Russian leaders in Crimea, where Russian forces tightened their grip on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula by seizing another border post and a military airfield.

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Daniel McAdams
Lew Rockwell Blog
March 9, 2014
Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/mccain-its-tragic-theres-no-u-s-military-option-in-ukraine/

If the US/EU backed overthrow of the Ukrainian government last month had a face, that face would be Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain is the “Energizer Bunny” of US interventionism: wherever there is a government to subvert, a regime to change, chaos to foment, there you will find McCain in its midst.

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