Ukraine’s Acting President Puts All Armed Forces On Full Combat Alert !

• Ukraine’s Acting President Puts All Armed Forces On Full Combat Alert! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com , 1 March 2014
  24 hours, it now appears that Russia and the Ukraine are one formal announcement away from a state of war. From moments ago, as reported by Bloomberg:
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  * UKRAINE ACTING PRESIDENT PUTS ALL FORCES ON FULL COMBAT ALERT
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  And this, as reported by the NYT, virtually assures the escalation to a hot war, as some provocation, somewhere will certainly take place: “a Ukrainian military official in Crimea said Ukrainian soldiers had been told to “open fire” if they came under attack by Russia troops or others.”
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  From Reuters:
  Ukraine put its armed forces on full combat alert on Saturday and warned Russia that any military intervention in the country would lead to war.
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  After a more than three-hour meeting with security and defence chiefs, Acting President Oleksander Turchinov said there was no justification for what he called Russian aggression against his country.
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  Standing beside Turchinov, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said he had urged Russia to return its troops to base in the Crimea region during a phone call with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and called for talks.
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  “Military intervention would be the beginning of war and the end of any relations between Ukraine and Russia,” Yatseniuk told reporters.
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  Finally, this:
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  * Ukraine protects all Ukrainians, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov says in Kiev briefing.
  * Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk: “diverting funds for military”
  * Turchynov: untrue that Russians are under threat
  * Turchynov: no reason for Putin request
  * Turchynov calls for national unity
  * Yatsenyuk says to take all measures to ensure peace
  * Yatsenyuk: no reason for Russia to intervene in Ukraine
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  Too late.

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