Ukraine calls up military reservists

[steve2470]

Source: BBC

Ukraine announces it is calling up military reservists, following Russia's decision to allow deployment of troops

More to follow.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26405635

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09:56: Ukraine is estimated to have around one million reservists. Its active military force counts some 160,000 personnel.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26405082

[steve2470]

1. BBC update

10:03: BBC Ukrainian editor Nina Kuryata in Kiev has received reports of Russian paratroopers threatening to storm Ukrainian army's marine battalion barracks in the village Perevalnoye, south of Simferopol. The battalion refused to hand in weapons and is preparing for assault.

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[penultimate]

3. Jesus fuck... but why would the Russians announce their attack plans?

[joshcryer]

5. They believe Crimea is rightfully theirs. Resistance is futile.

It is starting to sound like the worst case scenario of Putin attacking areas with ethnic Ukrainian or Tartar's is about to be tested. Best he just avoid them. This will be more and more difficult as he marches north.

[Recursion]

16. Same reason we say where we're going to blow up / invade

1. It gets civilians out of the area
2. It makes an example of the first few who don't surrender
3. It keeps the international community apprised of what's going on

[EX500rider]

21. Jeez, there' are lots of troops who will surrender fully armed without a fight...

.......Marines are usually not one of them.

[MADem]

2. They'd better tell them to bring a broomstick from home, because those guys don't have much to

fight with...

[steve2470]

4. yep

RT and Ria Novosti are reporting, supposedly, that many Crimean-based soldiers are quitting. No idea if there's any truth to that. I'm quite confident Putin will invade eastern Ukraine.

[joshcryer]

6. Ukraine claims defections are false:

https://twitter.com/ianjameslee/statuses/440068791851286530

[steve2470]

7. thanks for that nt

[steve2470]

8. Facebook accounts for Ukraine cabinet ministers, who knew

10:26: Colleagues at BBC Ukrainian in Kiev point out that Facebook accounts of most Ukrainian cabinet ministers are becoming a valuable source of information. The Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is using his Facebook page to publish detailed updates of developments in Crimea and elsewhere.

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[steve2470]

9. anti-war demonstration in Moscow broken up

Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow tweets: Police break up anti-war demo in #moscow # Russia. Outside ministry of defence. Few hundred people



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[pampango]

15. "So far the only ethnic Russians beaten/persecuted are the ones trying to demonstrate in Moscow

against the war on Ukraine."

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/440072594285277184

Putin to Yanukovych: "Now this is how you break up anti-government protests. Why couldn't you do this?"

[thucythucy]

20. Frightening situation all around. nt.

[joshcryer]

10. Ukraine: Ukraine military will not shoot first.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ru&sl=uk&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fespreso.tv%2Fnew%2F2014%2F03%2F02%2Fnemyrya_ukrayinci_ne_budut_strilyaty_pershymy&sandbox=1

[steve2470]

11. BBC update

10:45: The Ukrainian military recruitment office in the Crimean capital Simferopol is open, reports the BBC's Olga Ivshina: "Staff members did not let us in, but said that volunteers to join Ukrainian army can come tomorrow. Conscripts will be called to come, when 'the order comes'," she says.

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[steve2470]

12. report from Russian border guard service, grain of salt needed....

Reuters - Russia's border guard service said on Sunday some 675,000 Ukrainians had left for Russia in January-February this year and that there were signs of a "humanitarian catastrophe", Russian state news agency Itar-Tass said.

"If 'revolutionary chaos' in Ukraine continues, hundreds of thousands of refugees will flow into bordering Russian regions," Tass quoted the service as saying.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10669670/Ukraine-live.html

675K Ukrainians ? Come on.

[joshcryer]

13. Who is in charge of defence in post-revolution Ukraine?

Brian Whelan
@brianwhelanhack

Who is in charge of defence in post-revolution Ukraine? Andriy Parubiy of far-right Svoboda party and Dmytro Yarosh of Right Sector (nazis)

https://twitter.com/brianwhelanhack/status/440074461010595840

Boy oh boy!

[steve2470]

14. yep just posted that also nt

[steve2470]

17. NATO statement

11:53: Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Russia is threatening peace and security in Europe, the Reuters news agency reports. Mr Rasmussen also calls on Russia to de-escalate tensions.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26405082

[joshcryer]

18. This dude facing down dozens of army guys has guts:

Goddamn.

(This is at the Ukrainian base that is refusing to disarm.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Headline now: Ukraine orders full military mobilisation over Russia moves

Ukrainian national security officials announced several other measures on Sunday:

The armed forces would to be put on "full combat readiness"
Reserves to be mobilised and trained
Foreign minister to seek help from US and UK leaders in guaranteeing its security
Emergency headquarters to be set up
Security to be boosted at key sites, including nuclear plants
Airspace to be closed to all non-civilian aircraft
...
In the eastern port city of Feodosia, a group of Ukrainian marines were also blockaded into their base.
...
In the north of Crimea, at Armyansk on the Isthmus of Perekop, the BBC saw what appeared to be Russian soldiers digging trenches. The isthmus is strategically vital as it joins Crimea to the rest of Ukraine.

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