FINANCIAL TIMES: Barack Obama warned “there would be costs” for Russian military intervention in Ukraine as the country’s acting president called on Vladimir Putin to cease “provocations” aimed at luring Kiev into a military conflict to “annex” the peninsula of Crimea.
Serhiy Kunitsin, Mr Turchynov’s envoy to Crimea, told a Ukrainian TV channel late on Friday that a de facto “military invasion” of the peninsula was under way. He said Russia had brought in almost 2,000 extra troops to Crimea on board military flights.
John McCain, the hawkish Republican senator, told CNN the US could impose “far reaching” economic sanctions, expedite Georgia’s admission into Nato, re-establish missile defence capability in the Czech Republic and extend existing travel bans on select Russians to those involved in the Ukraine military incursion… (more)
