The Ukraine government is drawing up plans to evacuate its soldiers and their families from Russian-occupied Crimea to the mainland. With tears in their eyes, Ukrainian servicemen filed out of a navy headquarters in Sevastopol that was seized by pro-Moscow militants, Russian troops and Cossack forces. The assault began when some 200 unarmed militants – some of them in balaclavas – sawed through a fence and overran the base while the Ukrainian servicemen barricaded themselves inside. The pullout is tantamount to surrender, even if the provisional government in Kiev has insisted that Russia’s annexation of Crimea is illegal.
Read the story on the pullout in The New York Times.
Read a related story on Rappler.
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