Ukraine Finds Its Forces Are Ill Equipped to Take Crimea Back From Russia

KIEV, Ukraine — The United States and the European Union have embraced the revolution here as another flowering of democracy, a blow to authoritarianism and kleptocracy in the former Soviet space. But successful revolutions, as the interim government 

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is recalling Ottawa's ambassador to Moscow and suspended Canada's preparations for the G-8 Summit planned for Sochi, after speaking with U.S. President Barack Obama amid fears of all-out war in Ukraine. Following an 

Acting President Oleksandr V. Turchynov, at the left lectern, on Saturday with acting Prime Minister Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, at the right lectern. Credit Andrew Kravchenko/Ukraine Prime Minister Press Service, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

Ukraine's Navy flagship, the Hetman Sahaidachny frigate, has reportedly refused to follow orders from Kiev, and come over to Russia's side and is returning home after taking part in NATO operation in the Gulf of Aden flying 

The Lede is following events in Ukraine and Russia on Saturday, following a unanimous vote in the upper house of the Russian Parliament approving a request from President Vladimir Putin to send a military force to Ukraine