Ukraine, Russia Agree Brief Crimea Truce, Kiev Says
Russia and the Ukraine agree to a truce as Crimeans vote whether to break away from the Ukraine
Via AFP:
Ukraine's defence minister said Sunday his forces in Crimea had reached a temporary truce with Russia aimed at easing tensions surrounding the Black Sea peninsula's high-stakes secession referendum.
Russian troops seized the Ukrainian region at the start of the month with the help of pro-Kremlin militias in response of last month's fall in Kiev of a Moscow-backed regime.
The Russian forces have encircled Ukraine's military bases in Crimea and kept its naval ships from going out to sea.
But Defence Minister Igor Tenyukh told a government meeting in Kiev that a temporary agreement had ...