Another day of crisis. Russia just continues. Prepares annexation of Crimea. Clearly wants regime change in Kiev. But highly likely to fail.
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) March 9, 2014
Rogozin Says U.S., NATO 'Threats' Justify #Russia Rearmament http://t.co/hfBdR9S0CS #news
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 9, 2014
Here's the gist of the piece:
There is frustration at the bases at Kiev's failure to take more decisive action. A Ukrainian military source in Sevastopol said: "There's a feeling that in Kiev they are paralysed: they don't want to believe that this is happening, and they just don't know what to do. They are hoping they will wake up and find this will all have gone away – that there will be a miracle. They are not doing anything."
He added: "Can you imagine if there was just one American soldier stranded somewhere and being assaulted by enemies? The US government would mount a massive campaign to save him. We have thousands of soldiers stranded and they have been abandoned by our government, completely abandoned."
My piece on Ukrainian soldiers in Crimea in today's Observer... Threatened by Moscow, abandoned by Kiev http://t.co/7tksIViUjU
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) March 9, 2014
Thousands of pro Rus protesters marching through central Donetsk to gov building
— tom balmforth (@BalmforthTom) March 9, 2014
A few hundred pro Rus protesters marched to gov building. Entrance blocked by a truck, barbed wire and riot police pic.twitter.com/liX1xZSR9q
— tom balmforth (@BalmforthTom) March 9, 2014
#Donetsk's pro-#Russia leader Gubarev confirms neo-#Nazi past, says he 'learned a lot from the experience' #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ANBkE7PrwW
— Ukrainian Updates (@Ukroblogger) March 9, 2014
Sunday afternoon in Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/LJTrmdcp9c
— Andrew Roth (@ARothNYT) March 9, 2014
#Ukrainian railways has suspended sale of tickets to the #Crimea http://t.co/eSW4YP1fYi @ukrpravda_news | PR News
— Euromaidan PR (@EuromaidanPR) March 9, 2014
William Hague accuses Putin of a major miscalculation in this article today by The Guardian, but says neither diplomatic pressure nor economic sanctions will remove Russian forces from the Crimean Peninsula