Crimean crisis: Warning shots fired by Russian troops as Ukrainian troops march towards Belbek air base carrying old Soviet Communist regiment flag
This is the moment Russian troops guarding an air base in Crimea fired warning shots into the air as they were approached by unarmed Ukrainian troops.
About a dozen Russian soldiers at the Belbek air base warned the Ukrainians, who previously employed at the base until Russians seized control over the weekend, not to get any closer.
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 demanded their jobs back
The troops fired several warning shots into the air and said they would shoot the 300-strong group of Ukrainian soldiers if they continued to advance.
Despite the tense stand-off, hopes for a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis were raised today after the two countries’ ministers began ’high level’ talks.
Hold fire: A Russian soldier restrains a colleague after he fired his weapon into the air and screamed orders at an approaching group of unarmed Ukrainian troops
Stand-off: Around 300 Ukrainian troops, led by Colonel Yuli Mamchor (left), march towards Belbek air base to confront occupying Russian soldiersUkraine’s new Prime Minister
Arseny Yatseniuk has said his country were taking part in talks with Russia - but gave no further detail.
He then reiterated his view that Russia should withdraw forces from the region.
Who is, Arseny Yatseniuk? Short excerpt from wikipedia:
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (born May 22, 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who is the Prime Minister of Ukraine following the parliament’s 2014 removal of Viktor Yanukovych from power. Yatsenyuk served in the government of Ukraine as Minister of Economy from 2005 to 2006; subsequently he was Foreign Minister of Ukraine in 2007 and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2007 to 2008. Yatsenyuk is one of the leaders of Ukraine’s second biggest party All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" and leader of the parliamentary faction of "Fatherland".
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk was born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). He was born to in a family of Jewish-Ukrainian professors of the Chernivtsi University. His father, historian Peter Ivanovich Yatsenuk, has been a professor at the Faculty of History at Chernivtsi National University. His mother Maria Grigoriievna Yatsenyuk (nee Bakai) has been a teacher at the French Department of Foreign Languages at Chernivtsi National University. After Yatsenyuk began studying at the Chernivtsi University in 1992, Yatsenyuk set up a student law firm. He is partly of Romanian ancestry, with one of his grandparents being an ethnic Romanian from the region around Chernivtsi and citizen of Greater Romania; besides Ukrainian, Russian, and English, he also has some knowledge of Romanian. Yatsenyuk graduated from the university in 1996, and later attended the Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the "Kyiv National Trade-Economics Institute" in 2001.
From December 1992 to September 1997 he was the president of "Yurek Ltd." law firm, based in Chernivtsi. From January 1998 until September 2001, Yatsenyuk worked in the Aval bank, based in Kiev.
For more background on the old struggles between Russia and the old zionist oligarchs, see here:
Russia takes over Ukraine’s Crimea region - Western Medias Anti Russian Blitz Continues
Comment: Can someone explain why Colonel Yuli Mamchor’s 300 Ukrainan troops carry the old Soviet communist flag?
Are the Ukrainian National troops communists or is there another reason they carry the old Soviet communist flag?
Well, according to the dailymail: the Ukrainian troops carry the flag of their
regiment alongside the Ukrainian flag as they marched on Belbek air base.
So is this just an old remnant of old the Soviet military structure (and symbolism) that’s left in Ukraine? You’d think that the Ukrainians would want to cut the bonds to the old tyrannical Soviet rule and find their own military structure and symbolism. I mean the sentiments in Ukraine (as we’ve been told by the western mainstream media) is that of anti-Russian after all, right?The announcement came as Russian President Vladimir Putin said there was currently no need for further violence in Ukraine - but added he reserves the right to use ’all means’ to protect Russian speakers in the country.
Putin today ordered thousands of Russian troops participating in military exercises near Ukraine’s border to return to their base.
The action saw the stock markets rebound after dipping due to tensions in the region yesterday.
Russian stocks and the trouble were up, while gold and the Japanese yen fell. European stocks rose, with the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index up 1.8 percent - recouping over half of Monday’s losses driven largely by the Ukraine crisis.
MSCI’s all-country world stocks index, which tracks stocks in 45 countries, was up half a percent. U.S. stock index futures were up more than 1 percent - suggesting a higher open on Wall Street.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Ukraine for a five-hour show of support for the fledgling government in the country.
More photos and videos at:
dailymail.co.uk
