Kim Sengupta Saturday 08 March 2014 Simferopol, Crimea
Ukraine: Protesters in Crimea greet army with flowers...
as shots are fired at European monitoring team
Ukrainian soldiers tell Russia: We are not prepared to sell our country
In the same pro Russian rally, demonstrators show their support.
Ukraine's ambassador to Russia and a deputy Russian foreign minister
held a "cordial" meeting on Saturday
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7:48PM GMT 08 Mar 2014 By Damien McElroy, in Donetsk and Patrick Reevell in Simferopol, Crimea
Ukraine crisis: warning shots at border confirm new Europe's new frontier
Warning shots fired at an observation plane on patrol over Crimea, as Russia
rejects calls for talks
A new frontier has been laid down within Europe as Russian forces laid
landmines at the top of the Crimean peninsula and fired warning shots
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Ukraine crisis: Putin defends Russian actions in Crimea
following US and EU sanctions – live updates
Barack Obama delivers his statement on Ukraine. Photograph: REX
1.50pm GMT
Russia has been the most prominent international supporter of Bashar al-Assad, and the Syrian president has returned the favour.
Assad has written a letter to Vladimir Putin calling the military takeover of Crimea a "wise policy” and wishing him the best in his efforts to restore
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Ukraine crisis: Russia pledges to 'retaliate against sanctions' as Ukrainian president says Crimea vote will not be recognised
Russia has pledged to retaliate against any
sanctions imposed on it by the EU and US, further raising tensions in
what has quickly become worst diplomatic crisis between Russia and the
west since the end of the Cold War.
Russia on Friday accused the European Union of taking an "extremely
unconstructive position” by freezing talks on easing visa barriers and
suspending trade in response to the country's intervention in Ukraine.
Ukraine crisis: Putin is 'on the wrong side of history' says President Obama
President Barack Obama said on Monday night that
Russia was "on the wrong side of history” with its incursion into the
Crimean peninsula and said he was considering economic and diplomatic
options to punish it if it didn’t reverse course quickly.
"Over time this will be a costly proposition for Russia and now's the
time for them to consider whether they can serve their interests in a
way that resorts to diplomacy as opposed to force,” Mr Obama told
journalists in the Oval Office shortly before a long-scheduled meeting
with Benjami
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A Russian soldier keeps watch from an armoured car near a Ukrainian border post in Balaclava, Crimea (Baz Ratner)
FEARS of a military conflict over Crimea intensified last night when President
Vladimir Putin won the backing of parliament for his decision to send in
troops and Ukraine responded by putting its own forces on combat alert.
The escalation in the crisis came amid signs that violent unrest against the
new pro-western governme
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