It was after Yanukovych left Kiev and headed for the Russian - TopicsExpress



          

It was after Yanukovych left Kiev and headed for the Russian border that troops — Russian ones, according to witnesses, reporters and diplomats; local self-defense forces according to Putin — moved to take control of strategic locations in Crimea. That peninsula is important to Russia not only because of the large ethnic Russian population, but also because its home to Russias strategically significant warm-water naval base on the Black Sea.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:15:17 +0000

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