Russian forces currently control most military facilities in Crimea, and Western news agencies report. On Saturday, the assault on the Ukrainian Belbek air base, near Sevastopol, began using armored vehicles, after which military personnel broke into the territory of the facility. The BBC notes that light-shum grenades were used, shooting from automatic weapons was carried out into the air. It is reported about one injury to the Ukrainian soldier.

In the picture: Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk Kyiv intends to complete the negotiations with the mission of the International Monetary Fund on March 24-25, in connection with which Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk canceled his trip to the Hague to the Summit of the Great Seven countries. According to him, the final negotiations with the IMF mission will take place tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

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The temporary director of the OSCE mission in Ukraine will be the Polish diplomat Adam Koberatsky. He is currently the director of the Center for Prevention of OSCE conflicts in Vienna. Koberatsky will be in this position before the appointment of a permanent director. It is reported by the "newspaper Vygroch". Earlier it was reported that the OSCE will send the mission of observers from 100 civilians to Ukraine, and then another 400.

According to the Kremlin’s press service, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel on Sunday discussed by telephone the “situation that arose” after the annexation of Crimea by Russia. The statement of the Kremlin press service says that the leaders of the two countries "expressed satisfaction" regarding the fact that it was possible to coordinate the mandate of the OSCE observers in Ukraine.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting with reporters in Minsk, said that Crimea is part of Russia today, and nothing would change from recognition or non -recognition of this fact. Lukashenko noted that from Belarus now no one requires the legal recognition of Crimea. The Belarusian president believes that the current Ukrainian authorities made many mistakes that led to the loss of Crimea, one of them is a language question.

The last Ukrainian ship in the Sevastopol Bay was stormed “Gray, Gray! Sit in the cabin and do not stick out! And open the doors, these scumbags will still be knocked out,” a man shouted into a telephone with a short haircut and in a tracksuit. “And tell the old one so that it doesn’t protrude!” “And I am a rat, today I ran from the ship,” said another, smaller, but very strong, but very strong.

Members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress called on the Obama administration to provide Ukraine with small arms and military equipment in order to assist in the face of the accumulation of Russian troops on its eastern borders. In their speeches in Sundays, American television channels noted the importance of military assistance to Ukraine.

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The first prime minister of Spain Adolfo Suarez, in which the country has embarked on the path of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, died in the 82nd year of his life. This was reported by the Spanish media with reference to the representative of the Suarez family. In the past ten years, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. On Monday, he was hospitalized in one of the Madrid hospitals with a respiratory infection.

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President of the Extreme Right Party National Front Marine Le Pen The early data of the ectes of the municipal elections held on Sunday in France show that the extreme right party of the National Front has achieved success in a number of cities in the first round. The ectes on national television show that the National Front won the majority in the northern city of Enen-Bomon, and also won first places in the east of the country in the city of Forbach and in the south of France in Avignon.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and his wife Emin at a rally of supporters in Bursa Türkiye shot down a Syrian military aircraft on Sunday, bombing the positions of the rebels who tried to take control of the border outpost in the north-west of Syria. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, speaking at a rally of his supporters, was commendingly about the actions of Turkish air defense and said that it would continue to be so. "The Syrian plane broke our airspace.

Mikhail Saakashvili during a performance on the Maidan in Kyiv March 2 Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili refused to appear at the Georgian prosecutor's office on March 27 for interrogation as a witness in several criminal cases.