Putin set to invade Ukraine with Russian military forces until 'normalization' restored (CONTINUOUS UPDATES)

Putin set to invade Ukraine with Russian military forces until 'normalization' restored (CONTINUOUS UPDATES)





 

Young boys look on as unidentified armed individuals block the center of
Balaklava, near Sevastopol, on March 1, 2014. Russia's parliament on
March 1 gave President Vladimir Putin the go-ahead to send troops into
Ukraine, despite a warning from Washington that such a deployment would
results in "costs" for Moscow. The stark escalation of the ex-Soviet
country's three-month political crisis came amid growing instability in
Ukraine's predominantly Russian peninsula of Crimea that has housed
Kremlin navies for nearly 250 years. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV