Russian Forces 'Part-seize' Ukrainian Missile Units
March 5, 2014

Via AFP:

Russian forces partly seized two Ukrainian missile defence units in Crimea on Wednesday, Ukrainian defence ministry officials told AFP, insisting that their missiles remained under Ukrainian control.

At one base in Cape Fiolent, near the city of Sevastopol in southern Crimea, Russian soldiers hold some parts of the base although the missile depot remains in Ukrainian hands, Volodymyr Bova, a defence ministry spokesman in the disputed Black Sea peninsula, told AFP.

Pro-Moscow forces are also in partial control of a second base in Evpatoria, which does not have missiles on its grounds.

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