And it is game set and match,RUSSIA has scuttled a decommisioned...

And it is game set and match,

RUSSIA has scuttled a decommisioned vessel in waters off the Crimean town of Myrnyi, effectively blocking access for five Ukrainian Naval ships harboured there.

In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, Ochakov, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside the Southern Naval Headquarters.

Russian war vessels continue to patrol the coast.

The move by Russia’s navy comes amid reports that Ukrainian military in Crimea appear to be abandoning their bases.

In an extraordinary development to the crisis now politically engulfing most of Europe

(what about the word economically? more likely)

the Crimean regional government declared Ukrainian soldiers to be enemy combatants and warned them to surrender and leave the region.

Troops at some barracks across the Crimea were heeding the warning and walking out of barracks through blockades of Russian troops and local “self defence” units.

Crimea Deputy Prime minister Rustam Temirgaliev said the soldiers could switch sides and don Russian military uniforms and take Russian citizenship, or just surrender and leave the “Russian state”.

“If they do not agree, we are prepared to offer them safe passage from the territory of Crimea to their Ukrainian homeland,” he said.
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(In other words we aren't leaving and Crimea is Russian,so piss off U.S. and Europe).

Now that we have peace again in our time,let's get back to fixing the continuation of the GFC we really don't need these childish spats that are way over the other side of the world

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