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Ukraine orders full mobilisation as Crimea turns to Russia

March 2, 2014March 2, 2014 Elizabeth Arrott of VOANews Ukraine

Ukraine has ordered a full military mobilization after Russian lawmakers authorized the deployment of troops on Ukraine territory. Ukraine’s new

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Europe 

Ukraine: Russian forces control Crimea airports

February 28, 2014February 28, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

Ukraine’s interior minister has accused Russian forces of staging a “military invasion and occupation” after armed men took control of

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Sevastopol: the Ukrainian port on Russia’s side

February 27, 2014February 27, 2014 Jacob Resneck of Deutsche Welle Ukraine

This week thousands rallied in the military port city, waving Russian flags and chanting slogans against the people they describe

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A brief history of Crimea

February 27, 2014February 27, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and an autonomous Russian-speaking republic of Ukraine. In

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Ukraine’s new government to work on economy, reconciliation

February 27, 2014 Zlatica Hoke of VOANews Ukraine

Ukraine’s parliament voted to approve the country’s new leadership Thursday, amid protests by some who believe the government is being

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Reports: Yanukovych is in Russia, overthrown Ukraine president vows to ‘fight to the end’

February 27, 2014February 27, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych has made an address to the people of Ukraine to declare that he still considers himself the legitimately

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Two killed, 30 injured as armed men storm government buildings in Crimea

February 27, 2014February 27, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Ukraine’s acting interior minister Arsen Avakov put police and security forces on alert after buildings of the Crimean parliament and

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Arseniy Yatseniuk nominated to lead new government as Ukraine prime minister

February 26, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Leaders of the EuroMaidan revolution that toppled Viktor Yanukovych as president took the stage of Kyiv’s Independence Square on February

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Tensions mount in Ukraine’s Crimea

February 26, 2014February 27, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

Pro-Russia demonstrators and those supporting Ukraine’s new pro-Western interim leaders confronted each other in the southern city of Simferopol on

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