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SOS message: A protester holds a ‘Save Us’ sign during a demonstration outside the US consulate in Kiev, while tens of thousands of people gather during a rally in the city’s Independence Square yesterday PICTURES: EPA/AP VLADIMIR PUTIN was accused of ‘an incredible act of aggression’ last night as international tension mounted over Ukraine. The Russian leader had committed ‘a stunning violation, a wilful choice to invade another country’, the US said. ‘You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumpedup pretext,’ added the US secretary of state John Kerry. Mr Putin’s decision to send thousands of troops into Crimea also amounted to a ‘declaration of war’
by DOMINIC YEATMAN and had moved the country to the ‘brink of disaster’, the Ukrainian leadership said as it pleaded for help from Nato and the United Nations. Russian forces tightened their stranglehold over Crimea yesterday, seizing and surrounding military bases, and flying Russian flags from government buildings. Mr Putin was said to have sent another 6,000 troops into the southern province, on top of the 14,000 already stationed there. The president won approval from his parliament for the use of force in
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Ukraine on Saturday and warned he would intervene to protect Russians anywhere in the country. However, Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk said: ‘This is not a threat, this is actually the declaration of war to my country.’ Moscow was also warned its actions risked its expulsion from the G8 group of industrialised nations, as well as a wave of trade sanctions. Britain has pulled out of talks ahead of the G8 summit in Sochi and ministers will boycott the Paralympics being held in the city.
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