Tensions escalated in Crimea on Saturday as Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his upper house of parliament to approve the use of armed forces in the autonomous republic, heeding the call by its newly appointed prime minister for him to intervene and stoking fears of an Abkhazia scenario, in which Moscow would invade the territory with its troops as it did previously in Georgia.
Putin said the move is needed to protect ethnic Russians and the personnel of a Russian military base in Ukraine's strategic region of Crimea, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier, Ukraine’s defense minister said Russia had already deployed some 6,000 troops to Crimea, on top of the 15,000 permanently stationed at its Black Sea Fleet base in the port city of Sevastopol. Read more...
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