Several Ukrainian warships are currently in the port of Sevastopol. The Crimean government wants the fleet after the referendum seize. The power plants on the peninsula should change hands.

The self-proclaimed government in Crimea challenges the military in Kiev. The new leadership on the peninsula wants stationed there Ukrainian warships seize .

The shipping channel in the port in Sevastopol was already blocked , the Moscow-backed Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov said Tuesday the agency Ria Novosti . ” The local Ukrainian fleet was nationalized in full – we are not going to the ships surrendered. ” Ukrainian soldiers, who did not want to change the page would have to leave the Crimea.
Aksyonov announced that in addition to the fleet also power plants and the utilities Tschernomorneftegas would be confiscated. “There is a whole list of currently Ukrainian objects ,” he said. Private property was not affected .

The international law is part of the peninsula Ukraine decides on Sunday in a referendum on accession to Russia. The pro-Western leadership in Kiev and the European Union and the United States hold the short survey scheduled to be unconstitutional .

Crimean Crisis:Fabius threatened further sanctions against Moscow

Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgalijew said Russia had the autonomous peninsula provided a relief of a billion U.S. dollars in prospect. The leadership in Simferopol wanted to use the installment for salaries and pensions, when the central government had turned off the money tap in Kiev.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier advises on Tuesday with the governments of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia consequences of Ukraine crisis. Germany share “concerns our Baltic partners in view of the situation in Ukraine and the Crimea” and take them very seriously, Steinmeier said after his arrival in the Estonian capital Tallinn.

Should not give way the government in Moscow in the Crimean crisis later this week for further EU sanctions against Russia could be imposed in the words of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. An annexation of Crimea by Russia, which has stationed its Black Sea fleet, he called illegal. “The only legitimate vote is the election of the President of the Republic of Ukraine on 25 May,” he said. “The vote on March 16 is not lawful.”

Steinmeier said, however, in Tallinn, the EU would advise only on next Monday on possible further steps against the Kremlin.

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