Sunday, March 2, 2014

Ukraine's president says Russian forces issued ultimatum on Crimea

Via Ryan

Russian troops in Crimea

The Russian military set an ultimatum Sunday for Ukrainian army and navy units “to surrender weapons and leave their bases” in the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine’s acting president, Olexandr Turchinov, said in televised remarks.

According to Turchinov, the ultimatum demanded that the troops abandon their bases by 5 a.m. Sunday. But as of late afternoon, the Ukrainian military was still occupying the bases, although they were kept effectively confined to them by Russian troops blocking access.

Turchinev said the ultimatum came from the Russian military’s North Caucasus division. He said his efforts to speak about it with leaders in Moscow had been futile.

More @ LA Times

2 comments:

  1. If Putin gets rough with those troops, does not give them the option to leave honorably, he will see NATO in his grille. Count on it.

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    1. Don't think he will have to as the ones defecting could take care of that if necessary. Putin has already won and NATO and the US has about as much credibility as did SEATO.

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