Ukraine today accused Russia of sending thousands of extra troops to the Crimea in the middle of the Kremlin vows to ease tensions on the peninsula and warning Washington that Moscow would pay a risk when using force .
Defense Minister Igor Tenyukh said at the cabinet meeting that the Ukrainian government has sent the Russian army troop carrier vehicle 30 and 6,000 additional troops to cream to help the pro - Kremlin that demands winning independence from the pro - EU government in Kiev .
Tenyukh accused Russia Friday started adding strength without warning or permission Ukraine .
Tenyukh speaking after dozens of armed men patrolling the pro - Russian war alert in the capital Cream in Simferopol .
The same gunmen had occupied the parliament and government Thursday and controlling the airport and a military base the next day .
Ukrainian border guards reported that about 300 people armed and wearing full combat uniforms attempted to master the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol port city under the command of the Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu .
Peninsula that juts into the Black Sea and became the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the majority of Russia is now effectively cut off from the mainland of Ukraine .
Simferopol International Airport was functioning since last Friday and militia armed with Kalashnikovs guarding membanngun pockets at the end of the main highway cream .
Cream has become an arena of competition between the pro - western European citizens and residents who inhabit the pro-Russian east and south sides of Ukraine with a population of 46 million .
Cream is the autonomous region of nearly two million people 250 years ago and has since become the headquarters of the Russian Navy and was awarded a Soviet leader to Ukraine in 1954 when it was still part of the Soviet Union .
The people's representatives Cream Kiev defying new government and demanded a referendum on March 30, later to demand greater independence for the cream .
The new prime minister elected cream Sergiy Aksyonov forward these demands with Russian President Vladimir Putin called on to help bring about peace and tranquility in the middle of the feud with the pro- Western government of Kiev .
Aksyonov said that all security forces Cream , including border guards and police , under its control .
Putin asked the Russian Parliament itself to use all the possibilities available to protect residents cream .
The Kremlin source said that Russia would not ignore the request Aksyonov ) was , according to AFP .
French Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault stated that absolute territorial integrity must be respected Ukraian , after Kiev accused Moscow sent more than 6,000 troops to the cream .
" There is an absolute requirement that must be respected , namely the territorial integrity of a country , " said Ayrault social democrats in congress in Rome , as quoted by AFP .
" It requires a great sense of responsibility of all parties , on top of all of the political forces in Ukraine itself , but also of all the partners of Ukraine , " said Ayrault .
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also said that France doubts about the once over reports of military troops on the peninsula in the Black Sea .
British Foreign Secretary William Hague will visit Kiev , Ukraine , on Sunday ( 2/3 ) in order to talk with the interim government of Ukraine with increasing tensions with Russia related to the situation in Crimea , British Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Saturday .
The spokesman did not have further details about the plans Hague trip to Kiev , but Britain's Foreign Minister through his personal Twitter account on Friday night ( 28/2 ) twitter : " Just finished talking with the President while Ukraine ( Oleksandr ) Turchynov . "
" I will travel to Kiev on Sunday for talks with the new government of Ukraine , " Hague noted on his Twitter account .
While the President of Ukraine , Turchynov , on Friday has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to " stop military provocation " , and withdraw its troops from the Crimea , after pro - Russian armed groups occupying government buildings and parliament in the capital of Ukraine Simferopol .
Earlier, Prime Minister David Cameron has also contacted Putin to emphasize the importance of respecting the territorial integrity of Ukraine .
United States ( U.S. ) warned that President Barack Obama and other European leaders will likely reject attend the Summit ( Summit ) G8 in Sochi , Russia , if they judge the Russians tried to wrest the sovereignty of Ukraine .
Obama said on Friday (Saturday pm ) that he was very concerned to hear reports that Russian troops had landed in the Crimea , following an official statement in Kiev that the invasion was in progress .
The senior U.S. official said , President Obama decided to appear suddenly in a brief meeting at the White House after the U.S. government concludes that there is evidence that the Russians were indeed active in Ukraine .
Ukrainian officials said no armed forces - who wore a uniform with no specific national emblem - look around government buildings and airports in the Crimean city of Simferopol , and Ukrainian officials alleged that Russia is doing " naked aggression " .
The crisis in Ukraine has erupted from the political and economic crisis , which followed the overthrow of the government of Ukraine is considered pro - Russian , became a geopolitical battle after a claim by Ukrainian officials that about 2,000 Russian troops have landed in the Crimea .
" We are now very concerned to hear reports that there are military movements carried out by the Russian Federation in Ukraine , " Obama said .
After the release of President Obama 's statement , a U.S. military official said " it looks like the Russians had mobilized several hundred troops in Ukraine " . The official said that the Russian government did not give advance warning of the movement of the Russian army .
Obama acknowledged that Russia has interests and cultural and economic relations with Ukraine , and has military facilities in the Crimea , a region that is submitted by the Soviet Union to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954 .
However , the U.S. President also said that any violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine will be " very unstable " .
" The U.S. will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be a price to pay for any military intervention in Ukraine , " Obama said .
Other senior U.S. officials said , the price to pay is likely to include a decision Obama and the leaders of the European nations to skip the summit of eight industrialized nations ( G8 ) in the Black Sea resort Olympics in Sochi, Russia in June .
" Trade concessions and other commercial recently pursued by the Russian side may also be at risk , " the official said .
In addition , U.S. officials argue , Russia may well be wasting any global benefits to be gained from the Winter Olympics in Sochi , which expires at the end of last week .
Outside of these estimates , the level of U.S. influence on the state of the Russian Ukraine remains unclear .
So far , there has been no suggestion of U.S. military action and its allies , and also there are no plots to the resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations ( UN ) , which will be blocked by Russia as a permanent member of the UN .
The U.S. is also trying to avoid the scenario of the "Cold War " with Russia because the U.S. still needs the support of President Vladimir Putin in addressing a range of issues , including talks between world powers with Iran on its nuclear program , an effort to destroy chemical weapons Syria , and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan .
Russia issued a series of threats today that Ukraine will not get gas price discounts paid to the country's Russian gas company Gazprom for gas debts piled Kiev .
Gazprom estimates Ukraine gas debt reached 1.55 billion U.S. dollars in 2013 , but so far the gas delivered this year .
" It seems like the gas bills and the fulfillment of obligations of Ukraine , can not sustain the current gas price discount , " said Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told Reuters .
Warning of Russian gas is muddying the conflict triggered by the two countries in the area of dispute cream .
The increase in gas prices will exacerbate the liquidity crisis will trigger a Ukrainian and a new gas war between Kiev and Moscow , in addition to disrupting the supply of Russian gas to Europe which gets a third of its gas needs from Russia .
Russia agreed last December to cut gas prices for Kiev until a third into 268.50 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters of prices paid 400 U.S. dollars Ukraine since 2009 , after President Viktor Yanukovich ousted stop trade agreement talks with the EU and prefer closer to Russia Reuters .
Parliament today allowing Russia President Vladimir Putin sent troops to the cream , Ukraine , although the United States threatened that troop deployment will be costly for Moscow .
Most of the peninsula in the Black Sea region with a population of nearly two million people are now dikenalidkan pro - Russian .
After silent about recent developments in Ukraine , Putin asked the Russian parliament mengizinkannnya use force in Ukraine until the political situation is normal.
" In conjunction with the extraordinary situation in Ukraine and the threat to the lives of Russian citizens ... I told the Federation Council permohononan use the armed forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine to the normalization of the political situation in the country , " Putin said .
Putin said that Russia must protect its troops in the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea berpangkalangan , Black Sea , Ukraine , with a line to the treaty .
Federation Council unanimously Putin meet the demand .
Valentina Matviyenko chairman of the parliamentary commission abroad ordered parliament to ask Putin withdraw the Russian ambassador in the United States .
There are no details about the number of troops to be sent Putin , according to AFP .
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