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| Russia must stop Crimea provocations, says Ukraine's Turchynov | Russia must stop Crimea provocations, says Ukraine's Turchynov |
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| Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has accused Russia of deploying troops to Crimea and trying to provoke Kiev into "armed conflict". | |
| In a televised address, he claimed Moscow wanted the new interim government to react to provocations so it could annexe Crimea. | In a televised address, he claimed Moscow wanted the new interim government to react to provocations so it could annexe Crimea. |
| It comes amid unconfirmed reports that Russian planes have flown hundreds of troops into the region. | It comes amid unconfirmed reports that Russian planes have flown hundreds of troops into the region. |
| Armed men, thought to be loyal to Russia, have also taken over key hubs. | Armed men, thought to be loyal to Russia, have also taken over key hubs. |
| President Turchynov appealed to President Putin to "stop provocations and start negotiations". | |
| He said Russia was behaving as it did before sending troops into Georgia in 2008, "when having initiated a military conflict, they started to annex the territory". | |
| His statement came a few hours after the Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken of the "extreme importance of not allowing a further escalation of violence" during telephone conversations with Western leaders. | |
| But this appeared to conflict with what was being reported from within Crimea. | |
| Flights from and to the regional capital, Simferopol, were cancelled with airlines saying airspace over the peninsula had been cancelled. | |
| Senior Ukrainian official Sergiy Kunitsyn told local media 13 Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops had landed at a military air base near Simferopol. This remains unconfirmed. | |
| Earlier in the day, Russian armoured vehicles and helicopters were seen in and around Simferopol and Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea Fleet are based. | |
| Unidentified armed men have moved in on Crimea's parliament, state television building and telecommunication centres. |