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EU looks at pumping Russian gas back to Ukraine – economy – Video
EU looks at pumping Russian gas back to Ukraine - economy
Ukraine is looking west for its energy needs as it faces possible disruptions to natural gas supplies from Russia and almost certain huge wholesale price hik...
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Ukraine demands naval head's release
Ukraine's acting president has warned Crimea's Kremlin-backed leaders they have only three hours to release the captured head of the splintered ex-Soviet country's navy or face 'an adequate response'.
Kiev also announced on Wednesday a raft of urgent measures aimed at severing its ties with Moscow that included the withdrawal from a Kremlin-led alliance of 11 nations and the introduction of travel visas for Russians seeking entry into Ukraine.
The escalating crisis promoted the White House to warn Russia it was 'creating a dangerous situation' and the NATO commander to call the Kremlin's seizure of Crimea 'the gravest threat to European security and stability since the end of the Cold War'.
For its part, Germany said it was suspending a major arms with Moscow -- a signal that Washington's EU allies were willing to take more serious punitive steps against the Kremlin despite their heavy dependence on Russian energy supplies.
Pro-Russian forces had earlier seized two Crimean navy bases and detained Ukraine's naval chief as Moscow tightened its grip on the flashpoint peninsula despite Western warnings that its 'annexation' would not go unpunished.
Dozens of despondent Ukrainian soldiers - one of them in tears - filed out of the Ukraine's main navy headquarters in the historic Black Sea port city of Sevastopol after it was stormed by hundreds of pro-Kremlin protesters and masked Russian troops.
The local prosecutor's office said Ukraine's navy commander Sergiy Gayduk - appointed after his predecessor switched allegiance in favour of Crimea's pro-Kremlin authorities at the start of the month - had been detained on suspicion of 'ordering Ukrainian military units... to open fire on peaceful civilians'.
Gayduk's capture delivered a huge blow to efforts by the new team of untested pro-Western leaders in Kiev to impose some authority in their crisis-hit country in the face of an increasingly assertive Kremlin.
Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov scheduled an urgent security meeting and issued a statement around 6.00pm local time, giving the Crimean authorities until 9.00pm to release the commander and other 'hostages'.
'Unless Admiral Gayduk and all the other hostages - both military and civilian ones - are released, the authorities will carry out an adequate response... of a technical and technological nature.'
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Ukraine withdraws troops from Crimea, effectively acknowledging defeat to Russia
Endgame: Russian officers enter the Ukrainian marine battalion headquarters to discuss its surrender in the Crimean city of Feodosia. Photo: AFP
Simferopol: Ukraine announced the evacuation of its troops and their families from Crimea on Monday, effectively acknowledging defeat in the face of Russian forces, who stormed one of the last remaining Ukrainian bases on the peninsula.
Grip on Crimea: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Bloomberg
Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been besieged on bases in Crimea, offering no armed resistance but refusing to surrender, since President Vladimir Putin declared Moscow's right to intervene at the start of the month.
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Moscow formally annexed the region last week and its forces have been seizing the last Ukrainian bases in recent days.
"The National Defence and Security Council has instructed the Defence Ministry to carry out a re-deployment of military units in Crimea and evacuate their families," acting president Oleksander Turchinov told parliament in Kiev.
The move, he said, had been made following threats by Russian forces on the lives and health of Ukrainian service staff and their families.
Russian forces, using stun grenades and machine guns and backed by two helicopters, swept into a marine base in the port of Feodosia early on Monday, overrunning one of Ukraine's last symbols of resistance. Ukrainian officers were taken away for questioning, Ukrainian officials said.
An official withdrawal from the base was due to start at 3pm local time, Ukrainian military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said.
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