Russia To Ukraine: Surrender Or Face Military Assault

Freedom Outpost

Dean Garrison

Has it begun? Multiple sources are reporting today that the Commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has issued an ultimatum for Ukraine to surrender or face an assault across Crimea.

BBC reports:

Russia’s military has given Ukrainian forces in Crimea until dawn on Tuesday to surrender or face an assault, Ukrainian defence sources have said.

The head of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Aleksander Vitko set the deadline and threatened an attack “across Crimea”.

He also reportedly told two warships to surrender or be attacked at 17:00 GMT on Monday.

Moscow says it is protecting civilians from “ultra-nationalist threats”, but its actions have been widely condemned.

Russia is now said to be in de facto control of the Crimea region.

With the images and videos we saw over the weekend, I would say that “de facto control” is an understatement. There have been reports across alternative media of Ukrainians switching allegiance and of warships leaving Sevastopol already. RTreported Sunday that 10 ships have left voluntarily:

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