The Doha-based news network Al Jazeera, reporting from inside Crimea where Russian forces and unaffiliated armed militants allegedly linked to Russia have taken control of a variety of important installations, revealed on Friday that armed gunman have taken control of the regional parliament building in Simferopol. That city, the regional capital of the autonomous Ukrainian Republic of Crimea, is located approximately 80 kilometers from Sevastopol, a port city situated on the Black Sea where Russia maintains a large naval base.
“This, it seems, may now be the new normal in Crimea, a place almost all under Russian control,” on Al Jazeera reporter noted, observing that security forces are doing their best to keep press away from areas under control of the unaffiliated armed forces capturing sites across the region. “And for all the loud complaints from Kiev, it appears there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.“
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