There has been conflicting information on where exactly the vessel is, but a Russian senator has confirmed to Izvestia daily that the frigate defected to the Russian side.
“Ukraine’s Navy flagship the Hetman Sahaidachny has come over to our side today. It has hung out the St Andrew’s flag,” Senator Igor Morozov, a member of the committee on the international affairs, told Izvestia daily.
- He said the flagship is on its way back to the Black Sea after drills in the Mediterranean. “The crew has fulfilled the order by the chief commander of Ukraine’s armed forces Viktor Yanukovich,” he added.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Prime Minister Ukraine’s self-imposed government, had earlier asked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to let the frigate through the Bosporus strait, according to the Kiev Times. The ship captain and the head of Ukraine’s contingent in the operation, Rear Admiral Andrey Tarasov disobeyed orders from Kiev.
The Hetman Sahaidachny returns to Sevastopol, Crimea after taking part in a joint counter-piracy operation with NATO and the EU off the Horn of Africa, reported UNN on Friday, citing Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. On February 26, after crossing the Suez Canal, the ship entered the Mediterranean Sea and was expected to be in Sevastopol in early March.
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-navy-flaghsip-protest-389/
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Rogozin stresses Sevastopol is home for Russian Black Fleet...
ReplyDelete“The Black Sea Fleet is not homeless. Sevastopol is its home. And you should rather deal with your grandchildren,” Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister wrote.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin stresses Sevastopol /Crimea/ is home for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
By saying so he has commented in his Twitter to the information that Ukraine’s former presidents Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko called to terminate the Kharkov Agreement on the base of the Russian Fleet in Crimea.
“The Black Sea Fleet is not homeless. Sevastopol is its home. And you should rather deal with your grandchildren,” Rogozin wrote.
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/721645
2/3/14
Report: Russian servicemen confiscate weapons in Crimea region...
ReplyDeleteRussian military servicemen have taken weapons from a radar base and naval training facility in Ukraine's Crimea region and urged personnel to side with the peninsula's "legitimate" leaders, Interfax news agency said on Sunday.
It quoted a Ukrainian Defense Ministry source as saying the Russian servicemen had taken pistols, rifles and ammunition cartridges from the radar post near in the town of Sudak and taken them away by car.
Another group of Russian military had also removed weapons from a Ukrainian navy training center in the port city of Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea Fleet also has a base.
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Report-Russian-servicemen-confiscate-weapons-in-Crimea-region-343969
2/3/14
‘Any government willing to cooperate with the IMF will be heralded as legitimate’...
ReplyDeleteThe West's proposed financial aid will not solve Ukraine’s economic problems, but increase austerity, professor of political economy Jeffrey Sommers told RT.
If the self-proclaimed government in Kiev cooperates with the IMF, it will be regarded as legitimate in the West, even if its decisions are unpopular in Ukraine itself, Sommers says.
RT: Who do you think would be willing to foot that bill of $35 billion that Ukraine needs to stay afloat?
Jeffrey Sommers: I think it is certainly unlikely that either the EU or the US will come up with that level of funding especially given the tendency towards cutting budgets and austerity in either country. Now of course the IMF very much would like to come forward with the stabilization program and of course this would result in austerity being imposed on the Ukrainian economy and people but it is just difficult to say whether they’ll muster the political will to come with that level of funding and it does not really do anything to solve medium to long run problems in the Ukrainian economy anyway.
RT: Many within the country consider the current government illegitimate, would international organisations, like the IMF, be open to dealing with it?
JS: Well I think unfortunately any government that expresses its willingness to working with IMF in imposing the structural adjustment is going to be heralded as legitimate and so represent the popular will whether it does or does not..................http://rt.com/op-edge/ukraine-budget-west-aid-419/
2/3/14
Источник: украинские военные в Крыму переходят на сторону сил самообороны...
ReplyDeleteМногие из несогласных с курсом Киева оставляют воинские части и пишут рапорты об отставке.
Украинские военные, проходящие службу в дислоцированных в Крыму частях, переходят на сторону сил самообороны. Об этом сообщает корр. ИТАР-ТАСС с места события.
Многие военные, не согласные с курсом Киева, оставляют воинские части и пишут рапорты об отставке. Некоторые части заявляют о готовности выполнять распоряжения руководства сил самообороны Крыма, отмечает очевидец.
http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1015022
2/3/14
Source: ukrainian military in Crimea join civil self-defence forces...
ReplyDeleteUkrainian military servicing in Crimea’s military units, side with the self-defence forces there, Itar-Tass correspondent reports from Crimea.
Many military, who disapprove with Kiev’s policies, leave the units and resign. Some units announce they are ready to follow orders from Crimea’s self-defence, the correspondent reports.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/721649
2/3/14
Ukrainian military resigning en masse in Crimea - reports...
ReplyDeleteUkrainian armed forces dispatched to Crimea have started resigning on a massive scale, reports RIA Novosti.
Living quarters, weapons and ammunition have all been left under the protection of the so-called ‘self-defense forces,’ according to Interfax sources.
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http://rt.com/news/ukraine-military-russia-resign-437/
2/3/14
Ukrainian Naval Forces commander pledges allegiances to people of Crimea...
ReplyDeleteSIMFEROPOL, March 02, 20:47 /ITAR-TASS/. Rear Admiral Denis Berezovsky, whom the Kiev-based authorities appointed recently Commander of the Ukrainian Naval Forces, has pledged allegiance to the people of Crimea.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/721686?utm_medium=rss20
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