"Thirteen Russian aircraft landed at the airport of Gvardeyskoye (near Simferopol) with 150 people in each one," Sergiy Kunitsyn, the Ukrainian president's special representative in Crimea, told the local ATR television channel, according to AFP. He
The parliament of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea has proposed a referendum to determine the region's future amid the turmoil in the country.
the semi-autonomous region of Crimea. "Russia has sent forces into Crimea they are working on scenarios which are fully analogous with Abkhazia, when having initiated a military conflict, they started to annex the territory," he said in
CCTV footage has emerged of the moment armed men seized the Crimea parliament building in Simferopol, Ukraine. The images show the group – wearing unmarked military uniforms – outside the building, before entering amid an explosion in the early
Bottles, stones and flags flew in the air as thousands of pro- and anti-Russian demonstrators clashed in front of the parliament building in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine's autonomous Crimea Region. Tension between the