Tougher sanctions against Moscow and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Crimea the demands of the US Congress in a resolution. The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, Russia threw “hostile acts of aggression” against.

Russia has violated the Ukrainian sovereignty – that is the accusation of the U.S. Congress . In a resolution , MEPs call for the deployment of international observers to the Crimea and in other parts of the Ukraine and an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian peninsula on the Black Sea . The resolution was adopted on Tuesday and has yet to pass the Senate .

The vote was considerably : 403 MPs voted for the text , only six were against it. Already in the previous week the House of Representatives in Washington had cleared the way for loan guarantees in the amount of one billion U.S. dollars ( 727 million euros ) . This law has yet to be adopted by the Senate .
The demand for sanctions was renewed in resolution : Russia should be excluded from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations (G8) , asks the U.S. Congress . In addition, the world football governing body Fifa has been asked to reconsider its decision to host the football World Cup in 2018 in Russia . Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had ” its armed forces leave by the Ukrainian territory ,” it said .

Also, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to . The Speaker of the House Republican John Boehner , condemned Russia’s actions as “hostile acts of aggression ” . Putin had ” proven that he is a threat and a danger to the stability in the region” . For that he must ” be held accountable ” .

Crimea Crisis:Crimea under the control of Moscow

The US and the European Union have imposed in the past week first sanctions, which could be followed by more. Poland’s ambassador to Berlin, Jerzy Marganski said the “New Osnabrück newspaper” on Wednesday that the EU is “now at a point where the second stage of the phased plan adopted by the European Council seems to have been reached for sanctions.”

The Parliament of Crimea in the regional capital, Simferopol had previously voted almost unanimously for the declaration of the independence of Ukraine. The Crimea is based on a Russian military action in fact already under the control of Moscow. The U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions in the past week first.

Crimea Crisis:Referendum as a “farce”

Ukraine does not want to intervene militarily and instead secure their eastern border with Russia in the Crimea. “We can not start a military operation in the Crimea because our eastern border would just lie and then Ukraine would not be protected ,” said Interim President Alexander Turchinov .

Russia counting on that Ukraine would be militarily active in the Crimea, Turchinov said. ” Beyond the eastern boundary Ukrainian considerable armored units were contracted, they provoke us, so they have an excuse to attack the Ukrainian mainland,” he warned. This ” scenario outlined by the Kremlin ” will not follow the Ukraine.

The planned for Sunday referendum on whether to join the Crimean peninsula to Russia Turchinov designated as a ” farce ” . ” What is called a referendum , not plays in the Crimea, but in the offices of the Kremlin ,” he criticized . Moscow currently reject any contact to Kiev from , Turchinov said although the world community ” the beginning of peace negotiations ” ask .

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