The border of America is being invaded continually, and all who are at the situation will show you, tell you, and assure you that not only children are coming through the major gap that the federal government will not close. This issue could be the final blow to the United States of America. in fact, the hits are already knocking her down, and unfortunately there is no letting up! The border crisis is one significant issue and not many can do something about it, well Crusaders2127 would like to go down and do our best to share the message of what is going on at the border in Texas, Arizona, California, and all other affected states (which by now is all the way in New York. Its time for the investigative journalists to get out there and show proof that we are being invaded. Its time that the militias formulate a plot to stop the invasion. We at Crusaders2127 are beginning to think on how this would be possible for us and others to close the border or at least help get others out there. The time has come, and push has come to shove. It is time to get into action and begin the take back of America. Of course Obama won't do anything about this, of course most of the congress and senate won't touch the issue, so we the people have to! We the people of this once great nation have to take a stand before it is to late. Time is running out for our country and not much can be done. However one victory leads to another, and another. This began at the Bundy Ranch when few good men stood against total tyranny and won!
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
The Fourth Horseman Of The SKEW Index? You Decide. By Gregory Mannarino
Looks like someone else agrees, the economic collapse is about as close as tomorrow but we are not sure when it will hit today. That means that it is right around the corner, the event everyone is waiting on could be at any moment. Flight MH17 was used as a diversion to get everyone off of the topic of illegal immigration, the middle east and it changed the focus back to the Ukraine crisis. This is a proxy war, and the 300 lives supposedly lost would only be a small remembrance if this is aloud to go hot! Which unfortunately is right here and now. There are no other times than these epic times we live in. Are you prepared? Are you ready because whats next is something that not many will be able to handle. The economy failed in 2008 they just held the damage off until now.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
2127 VIDEO REPORT: ECONOMIC CRISIS RUSSIA AND CHINA IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT OVER USA AND PUTIN THREATENS THE USA!
Obama is an embarrassment to this country and freedom!
Obama is making this country look so weak, yet again more empty threats from our "fearless" president. Still Putin has made this guy look like a fool. We the people of the United States are being scammed by a coward who acts tough but backs off every time the going gets rough. The waves of the New World Order can be seen ahead and it is not looking good for our world. No matter what though, Obama is the face man, the blamed man, when we really should be looking at the shadow government who is controlling everything. This controlled collapse is due to spill out of control. This war is being held off just by shoelaces so if you are thinking clearly enough its time to lace up! Games on, time to stand strong and hold-fast as the New World comes to pass.
Russia has threatened back against sanctions by the USA to dump bonds and treasuries.
This in a game of chess would be a check. Looking at how fragile our economy is one false move could bring this consumerized world to a blatant halt. Just as bad as it is here is one more thing to throw on the pile. Russia and Iran are going to be working together to improve Cyber Attack capabilities agaisnt the USA. Our cyber world is so fragile, our economic systems are unprotected our infrastructure is unprotected and is awaiting the final blow. When this occurs in America, everything will stop. This will create panic among many but a sense of relife to those prepared. Iran
RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, NORTH KOREA
Combined make one deadly force, a very dangerous force. The US played its part in keeping them toned down. Now, the USA would go crying home like a wounded baby because this allegiance that is being formed has the ability to attack at all angles that seems like Check Mate, game, set, match. The known about alliance with these countries is Russia, Iran, and China. All three play a big part in this. This is going to be Kingdom vs Kingdom and Nation against Nation. The only question is when does it start? That can be answered with this; the very second the dollar drops. Russian and Chinese troops are both on our soil just waiting for orders. Just like the Russian troops and Crimean troops where standing off at each other awaiting orders. Welcome to the end of our civilization and the world you once knew. The USA is about to be taken out of power by force.
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-Father in Heaven, I want to give my life to you, I want to repent of my sins, inequities, debts, and trespasses against you, and I want to give my life to Jesus Christ and accept Him as my Lord and Savior, I have come to believe in my heart that He died on the Cross that should have been my cross to bear, and you raised Him from the Dead, So He may sit on the right hand of You and prepare a place for me, I accept you now as my Savior, my Lord, my God,
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
ZEROHEDGE: The Backstory to the Russia-Ukraine Confrontation: The U.S. and NATO Encirclement of Russia
The American press portrays Putin as being the bad guy and the aggressor in the Ukraine crisis.
Putin is certainly no saint. A former KGB agent, Putin's net worth is estimated at some $40 billion dollars ... as he has squeezed money out of the Russian economy by treating the country as his own personal fiefdom. And all sides appear to have dirt on their hands in the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
But we can only see the bigger picture if we take a step back and gain a little understanding of the history underlying the current tensions.
Indeed, the fact that the U.S. has allegedly paid billions of dollars to anti-Russian forces in Ukraine - and even purportedly picked the Ukrainian president - has to be seen in context.
Veteran New York Times reporter Steven Kinzer notes at the Boston Globe:
From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran. [Background here, here and here.] It has brought 12 countries in central Europe, all of them formerly allied with Moscow, into the NATO alliance. US military power is now directly on Russia’s borders.“I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” warned George Kennan, the renowned diplomat and Russia-watcher, as NATO began expanding eastward. “I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely, and it will affect their policies.”
Stephen Cohen - professor emeritus at New York University and Princeton University who has long focused on Russia - explained this weekend on CNN:
We are witnessing as we talk the making possibly of the worst history of our lifetime. We are watching the descending of a new cold war divide between west and east, only this time, it is not in far away Berlin, it's right on Russia's borders through the historical civilization in Ukraine. It's a crisis of historic magnitude. If you ask how we got in it, how we got into the crisis, and how therefore do we get out, it is time to stop asking why Putin - why Putin is doing this or that, but ask about the American policy, and the European Union policy that led to this moment.***
I don't know if you your listeners or views remember George Kennan. He was considered [a] great strategic thinker about Russia among American diplomats but he warned when we expanded NATO [under Bill Clinton], that this was the most fateful mistake of American foreign policy and that it would lead to a new Cold War. George lived to his hundreds, died a few years ago, but his truth goes marching on. The decision to move NATO beginning in the 90's continuing under Bush and continuing under Obama, is right now on Russia's borders.And if you want to know for sure, and I have spent a lot of time in Moscow, if you want to know what the Russian power elite thinks Ukraine is about, it is about bringing it into NATO. One last point, that so-called economic partnership that Yanukovych, the elected president of Ukraine did not sign, and that set off the streets - the protests in the streets in November, which led to this violence in and confrontation today, that so-called economic agreement included military clauses which said that Ukraine by signing this so called civilization agreement had to abide by NATO military policy. This is what this is about from the Russian point of view, the ongoing western march towards post Soviet Russia.
Jonathan Steele writes at the Guardian
Both John Kerry's threats to expel Russia from the G8 and the Ukrainian government's plea for Nato aid mark a dangerous escalation of a crisis that can easily be contained if cool heads prevail. Hysteria seems to be the mood in Washington and Kiev, with the new Ukrainian prime minister claiming, "We are on the brink of disaster" as he calls up army reserves in response toRussian military movements in Crimea.Were he talking about the country's economic plight he would have a point. Instead, along with much of the US and European media, he was over-dramatising developments in the east, where Russian speakers are understandably alarmed after the new Kiev authorities scrapped a law allowing Russian as an official language in their areas. They see it as proof that the anti-Russian ultra-nationalists from western Ukraine who were the dominant force in last month's insurrection still control it. Eastern Ukrainians fear similar tactics of storming public buildings could be used against their elected officials.Kerry's rush to punish Russia and Nato's decision to respond to Kiev's call by holding a meeting of member states' ambassadors in Brussels today were mistakes. Ukraine is not part of the alliance, so none of the obligations of common defence come into play. Nato should refrain from interfering in Ukraine by word or deed. The fact that it insists on getting engaged reveals the elephant in the room: underlying the crisis in Crimea and Russia's fierce resistance to potential changes is Nato's undisguised ambition to continue two decades of expansion into what used to be called "post-Soviet space", led by Bill Clinton and taken up by successive administrations in Washington. At the back of Pentagon minds, no doubt, is the dream that a US navy will one day replace the Russian Black Sea fleet in the Crimean ports of Sevastopol and Balaclava.
***Vladimir Putin's troop movements in Crimea, which are supported by most Russians, are of questionable legality under the terms of the peace and friendship treaty that Russia signed with Ukraine in 1997. But their illegality is considerably less clear-cut than that of the US-led invasion of Iraq, or of Afghanistan, where the UN security council only authorised the intervention several weeks after it had happened. [Indeed, top American leaders admit that the Iraq war was for reasons different than publicly stated. And the U.S. military sticks its nose in other countries' business all over the world. And see this.] And Russia's troop movements can be reversed if the crisis abates. That would require the restoration of the language law in eastern Ukraine and firm action to prevent armed groups of anti-Russian nationalists threatening public buildings there.
Again, we don't believe that there are angels on any side. But we do believe that everyone has to take a step back, look at the bigger picture, calm down and reach a negotiated diplomatic resolution.
DAILYNEWS: Turkey scrambles jets after Russian plane flies near its Black Sea coast
Tuesday,March 4 2014, Your time is 3:47:35 PM
Turkey scrambles jets after Russian plane flies near its Black Sea coast
ISTANBUL - Reuters
The incident occurred on Monday and the Russian plane remained in international airspace, according to a statement on the website of the military General Staff.
Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, which juts into the north of the Black Sea, is at the centre of the current standoff between Russia and Ukraine's new pro-Western government. NATO member Turkey forms the southern coastline of the Black Sea.
REUTERS: Jailed opposition leader calls for more Venezuela protests
WHY IS VENEZUELA NOT IN THE NEWS!!!!! THIS IS HUGE!!!!!! FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON VENEZUELA IT TIES TO UKRAINE, RUSSIA, AND THE USA!!!
By Brian Ellsworth
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Mon Mar 3, 2014 3:08pm EST
Anti-government protesters shield themselves from tear gas during a rally in Caracas March 2, 2014.
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Lopez, who was arrested on February 18 after helping launch a nationwide protest movement, demanded top officials including the interior minister resign over the use of force against demonstrators in violence that has killed at least 18 people.
"We must continue the peaceful struggle. There is no reason to give up our fight," said Lopez in a message read in a video posted online from an undisclosed location by a party colleague who is also wanted in connection with the unrest.
"They will never defeat those who refuse to give up."
Opposition leaders called for another march on Monday after bringing thousands onto the streets on Sunday, despite the Carnival holiday that usually draws Venezuelans to the beach.
Several thousand people gathered in the well-heeled Las Mercedes district of Caracas and marched to the local office of the Organization of American States.
Protesters in the wealthier east of the capital have clashed nearly every day with National Guard troops in confused melees that generally kick off in the early evening.
The demonstrators set up improvised barricades of debris and burning trash that are usually cleared by the next day.
There are no signs that the unrest, which Maduro excoriates as a U.S.-backed coup effort, could overthrow his government or force him to resign, despite widespread discontent with soaring inflation and rampant crime.
DIPLOMATS AND MOVIE STARS
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Elias Jaua, who met on Monday with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, said the protests were not peaceful demonstrations but rather dangerous and vandalistic disruptions of public order.
"Venezuela's people have been subjected to a continuous attack over the last month that seeks to make the state look like a human rights violator," Jaua said in a speech.
"They are trying to paint a picture of generalized chaos and indiscriminate repression to justify a foreign intervention in our internal affairs."
The U.N. said in a statement that Ban expressed hope for reduced tensions and the possibility for dialogue.
The continuing protests have helped motivate the opposition, and even prompted solidarity from Hollywood stars including Jared Leto and Kevin Spacey during Sunday's Academy Awards.
Anti-government street activism during 2002 helped briefly topple socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who died a year ago from cancer, but similar efforts afterwards failed miserably.
A two-month national strike launched that same year which included marches almost every day ended up bolstering Chavez and weakening the opposition.
Protests in 2004 that were nearly identical to those of today helped the government paint its rivals as saboteurs willing to do anything to seize power.
The current protests are facing both natural attrition and criticism from within opposition ranks, especially the tactic of improvised street barricades.
INTERNAL DISSENT
One recent video filmed in the central city of Valencia shows opposition sympathizers in a well-to-do neighborhood attempting to clear debris from a road, while exchanging insults with residents who insist on restoring the barrier.
"How many diseases are produced by this?" asks one woman standing in an ash-filled street blocked by wooden pallets and concrete rubble. "If we're going to talk about politics, who voted for this? I didn't."
"What could be more of a dictatorship than what they're doing here?" chimes in a second angry neighbor.
Another woman is seen bleeding from a slash in her forearm, apparently after trying to move metal debris from the barricade.
Maduro sought to take the wind out of the demonstrations by extending the four-day Carnival holiday to six days, though politics has permeated many visits to the beach.
Opposition sympathizers filled social networks with pictures of empty beaches, while state television broadcast footage of festive revelry and traditional costume parades.
Mock tombstones and crosses were set up on a beach in the wealthy eastern town of Lecheria. Local media said they were removed by the pro-Maduro state government, then set up again by opposition stalwarts.
On Sunday night security forces clashed with protesters in Caracas' posh Plaza Altamira, a frequent focus of rock-throwing rallies. National Guard troops, seeking to dissuade the demonstrators, blared Venezuelan folk music for several hours through loudspeakers mounted on a truck.
Cybernauts at the same time lobbied movie stars on Twitter to speak out about the situation at the Oscars, intermingling images of teargas clouds rising from the plaza with shots of Hollywood actors in black-tie garb on the red carpet.
The security response to protests has become the primary motivation for demonstrators, overtaking complaints about Venezuela's ailing economy.
Annual inflation reached 56 percent last year and the central bank's index of product scarcity recently hit a record high, even though the price of oil, the country's main export, has remained in a comfortable range of $100 per barrel.
Maduro decries an "economic war" backed by Washington, but his critics say the situation is the result of a failed system of currency controls and nationalizations that have strangled the private sector and left the economy dependent on dozens of bloated state-run enterprises.
(Additional reporting by Jorge Silva and Carlos Garcia Rawlins in Caracas and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Daniel Wallis, James Dalgleish and Meredith Mazzilli)
DAILYMAIL: Russia fires its first shots in Crimea as soldiers warn off unarmed Ukrainian troops advancing on occupied airfield to demand their jobs back
- VIDEO OF WARNING SHOTS
- A dozen Russian soldiers fired warning shots as 300 unarmed Ukrainian soldiers marched to Belbek air base
- The Ukrainian troops were employed at the air base before Russians forces seized control over the weekend
- Stand-off comes as both Russia and Ukraine send warships into the Bosphorus straits, heading towards Crimea
- Head of Ukraine's security service says Russia has also conducted cyber attacks using illegal telecoms equipment
- Meanwhile Vladimir Putin refuses to rule out moving troops further into Ukraine if Russian-speakers ask for help
Russian troops in control of the Belbek air base in Crimea fired warning shots into the air as around 300 Ukrainian soldiers, who previously manned the airfield, demanded their jobs back.
About a dozen Russian soldiers at the base warned the Ukrainians, who were marching towards them without any weapons, not to get any closer.
They fired several warning shots into the air and said they would shoot the Ukrainians if they continued to advance.
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Tense: Russian troops in control of the Belbek
air base in the Crimea region fired warning shots into the air as around
300 Ukrainian soldiers, who previously manned the airfield, demanded
their jobs back
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Hold fire: A Russian soldier restrains a
colleague after he fired his weapon into the air and screamed orders to
turn back at an approaching group of unarmed Ukrainian troops
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Stand-off: A Russian soldier prepares to fire
his weapon as around 300 Ukrainian troops, led by Colonel Yuli Mamchor
(left), march towards Belbek air base
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Shots fired: A Russian soldier is seen firing
warning shots into the air as his colleagues point their guns at the
unarmed Ukrainian soldiers
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Leader: Colonel Yuli Mamchor (right), commander
of the Ukrainian military garrison, speaks to gun-wielding Russian
troops occupying the Belbek airbase in Crimea
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Stop: This Russian soldier is believed to have
ordered the unarmed Ukrainian troops to stop advancing towards them or
he would shoot
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Outnumbered: The dozen Russian troops fired
several warning shots into the air and said they would shoot the 300
Ukrainian soldiers (left) if they continued to march
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Hidden: A group of mostly-masked pro-Russian
militants arrived at the air base shortly after the stand-off, as
Russian-led troops blockade Ukrainian military bases
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Marksmen: A Russian soldier guards the occupied Belbek airbase after Ukrainian troops marched on the area earlier today
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Moment of peace: Russian soldiers watch Ukrainian servicemen play football following the tense stand-off at Belbek airport
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Support: Shortly after the stand-off, a group of
masked pro-Russian troops arrived (left) to provide backup to the dozen
or so Russian soldiers (right) on the site
Colonel Yuli Mamchor (centre), commander of the
Ukrainian military garrison at the Belbek air base, leads his unarmed
troops to retake the airfield from Russian soldiers
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Honour: Colonel Yuli Mamchor gives a salute to a
Ukrainian flag before leading around 300 unarmed troops towards the
Belbek airfield
The Ukrainian forces were led by Colonel Yuli Mamchor, commander of the Ukrainian military garrison at Belbek, who was seen speaking to gun-wielding Russian troops at the air base.
The stand-off comes as Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops participating in military exercises near Ukraine's border to return to their base.
He later described events in Ukraine as an 'anti-constitutional coup and armed seizure of power' at a press conference this morning, adding that 'militants' had plunged the country into 'chaos'.
Putin added that there is currently no need for Russian troops to extend further into Ukraine than Crimea, but he has not ruled out doing so.
Russia reserves the right to use 'all means' to protect citizens in Ukraine, he told a news conference.
Putin added that if Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine asked for help, then Moscow would respond, saying: 'If we see this anarchy beginning in the eastern regions we reserve the right to use all means'.
He also insisted that that ousted Viktor Yanukovych was still the legitimate president of Ukraine, accused the West of encouraging the street protests that had ousted him, and added that Yanukovych would have been killed without Russia's help.
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Location: Belbek is in the south west corner of the Crimean peninsula, close to the port city of Sevastopol
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Conflict: Occupying Russian soldiers stand on
command in front of Ukrainian murals at Belbek air base, deep in the
heart of the Crimea
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Keeping warm: Following the air base stand-off,
armed Russian troops huddled together in small groups to keep warm as
they stood guard
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Unarmed: None of the Ukrainian servicemen (pictured) were carrying weapons when the warning shots from Russian troops were fired
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Threat: About a dozen Russian soldiers
(pictured) have been stationed at the base since the weekend. They
warned the advancing Ukrainians not to approach them
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Dispute: Ukraine has effectively lost control of
the Crimean peninsula and admits it has 'no military options' to make
Moscow withdraw from the region
Ukraine's new Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will meet EU leaders on Thursday ahead of an emergency summit the same day on the crisis in his country, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said.
EU leaders 'will discuss situation in Ukraine with PM Yatsenyuk in Brussels Thursday prior to extraordinary summit,' Van Rompuy said on Twitter this morning.
Earlier in the day, two Russian warships on their way to Crimea passed through Istanbul's Bosphorus straits.
The Saratov and Yamal warships, which are usually based in the Mediterranean, were seen sailing unaccompanied through the Marmara Sea before entering the straits at around 7.30am local time.
At the same time as the Russian warships headed towards the Crimea, a Ukrainian ship called 'Hetman Sahaidachny entered the straits at Canakkale in Turkey.
The head of Ukraine's security service also this morning suggested the country has come under a number of cyber attacks from illegal telecommunications equipment installed in Crimea since Russian troops moved into the region.
Valentyn Nalivaichenko said the mobile phones of lawmakers had been hit by the cyber attacks.
The Kremlin, which does not recognise the new Ukrainian leadership, insists it made the move to protect millions of Russians living in the region, with Moscow's UN envoy adding that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych had asked the country to send troops across the border.
Ukraine has effectively lost control of the Crimean peninsula and admits it has ‘no military options’ to make Moscow withdraw.
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Negotiations: Colonel Yuli Mamchor walks past
armed Russian soldiers as he returns to his Ukrainian troops. He had
just been speaking with Russian troop leaders
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Calm: Colonel Yuli Mamchor, the leader of the
unarmed Ukrainian troops involved in the stand-off, calmly chats with
armed Russian soldiers
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Heavily armed and camouflaged Russian soldiers duck beneath a small mound as the unarmed Ukrainian troops arrived at the site
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Taking a break: Unarmed Ukrainian troops rest on the Belbek airfield after they confronted soldiers under Russian command
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Brave: Unarmed Ukrainian troops (pictured) confronted the heavily armed Russian soldiers who have been occupying Belbek air base
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Unarmed: A Ukrainian solider chats on his mobile phone as a group of 300 march on Belbelk air base with the intention of reclaiming it from Russian troops
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Taking back Belbek: The unarmed Ukrainian soldiers line-up for photographs before marching towards the armed Russian troops
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Waiting around: Unarmed Ukrainian troops rest on
the Belbek airfield after confronting Russian soldiers who have been
occupying the base in Crimea
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Loyal: Unarmed Ukrainian troops carry the flag of their regiment alongside the Ukrainian flag as they marched on Belbek air base
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Liberate: Around 300 Ukrainian troops arrived at
the base hoping to reclaim it from the dozen or so Russian soldiers
occupying the site
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Earlier this morning, two Russian warships on their way to Crimea passed through Istanbul's Bosphorus straits
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The Saratov and Yamal warships, which are
usually based in the Mediterranean, were seen sailing unaccompanied
through the Marmara Sea before entering the straits
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At the same time as the Russian warships headed
towards the Crimea, a Ukrainian ship called 'Hetman Sahaidachny' entered
the straits at Canakkale in Turkey
Although the Russian president has kept his silence on the crisis, his foreign minister said Russian troops were protecting people from ‘ultra-nationalist threats’ and would be staying put.
Justifying military action, Sergei Lavrov said: ‘This is a question of defending our citizens and compatriots, ensuring human rights, especially the right to life.’
The disclosure of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's support for Russian military intervention was made at the third emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council since Friday.
Moscow's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin told a Security Council meeting Yanukovych wrote to Putin on Saturday requesting Russian troops be sent into Ukraine.
It came amid fears that the Kremlin might carry out more land grabs in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine.
Russia faced demands from almost all council members to pull its troops out of Crimea and got no support for its military action from close ally China.
Monday, March 3, 2014
RUSSIAN WEBSITE: Evromajdana Facebook activist contends that Yanukovych had died of a heart attack-MEDIA
Photo: Re
Media reports about the death of Viktor Yanukovych
On his Facebook page Evromajdana activist Michael Swan wrote that Viktor Yanukovych died in the Rostov hospital
Evromajdana, a human rights activist Mikhail Lebed announces the death of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich, of a heart attack, wrote the left coast.
Swan refers to a friend from Rostov Institute of cardiology.
"The Only thing about this on the phone told me a friend of Rostov Institute of cardiology. Ânyka brought back about 11 a.m. March 3 with a heart attack, and an hour later he died, "says Swan in Facebook.
BBC: Ukraine crisis: UK warns Russia over Crimean incursion
David Cameron: "What we want to see is a de-escalation"
Diplomatic,
political and economic pressures will be put on Russia to send a "clear
message" about its actions in the Ukraine, David Cameron has said.
The prime minister was speaking after Russian forces
reportedly set a 03:00 GMT deadline for Ukrainian forces in Crimea to
surrender or face attack. The international community has warned Russia of reprisals if it does not pull its forces back and reduce tensions.
Vladimir Putin has said Russia reserves the right to protect its interests.
Mr Cameron spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande about the crisis on Monday.
Downing Street said they had agreed they "should speak with one voice and send a clear message to Russia that its actions in Ukraine were completely unacceptable".
Meanwhile, an official document says the UK government will not curb trade with Russia or close London's financial centre to Russians as part of any possible package of sanctions against Moscow.
The document, which was photographed as a senior official carried it into a meeting in Downing Street, says "the UK should not support for now trade sanctions or close London's financial centre to Russians".
WORLD: Washington urges Moscow to 'de-escalate Ukraine crisis', suspends military cooperation
The suspension covers "exercises, bilateral meetings, port visits and planning conferences, Kirby said.
The United States is closely monitoring the crisis and calls on "Russian forces in Crimea to return to their bases, as required under the agreements governing the Russia Black Sea Fleet," he said.
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