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No Russians in Crimea remember?

Via BBC:

The Belbek airbase in Crimea is now famous for a tense confrontation between soldiers in Russian uniforms – without insignia – and Ukrainian troops, filmed by Western journalists.

Here Olga Ivshina, a BBC Russian Service reporter, describes her own tense exchanges with Russian-speaking troops controlling the base just outside Sevastopol.

“Don’t move or I’ll shoot!” someone shouts from the bushes. Slowly, I turn my head and see a gun fitted with a silencer, pointing at me.

Military bases are not designed to accommodate journalists – you are left standing there for hours, with no power points or toilets. Just a narrow road and endless bushes.

Just a few minutes ago, the idea of straying a few hundred metres from the crowd of colleagues seemed quite reasonable and safe to us.

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