As hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday, world leaders and Ukraine's new prime minister urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his military.
US Secretary of State John Kerry called Russia's military incursion into Ukraine “an incredible act of aggression”—comments that came a day after Russian forces took over the strategic Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine without firing a shot.
In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said there was no reason for Russia to invade Ukraine, and warned that “we are on the brink of disaster”.
But so far, his new government and other countries have been powerless to react to Russian military tactics.
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