SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Russian military were blocking an airport in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea near the Russian naval base while unidentified men were patrolling another airport serving the regional capital, Ukraine’s new Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Friday.
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A file picture taken on July 16, 2013, shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and Defence minister Sergei Shoigu (L) watching military exercises in the Pacific Ocean near the Sakhalin island. Putin ordered yesterday snap combat readiness drills near the Ukrainian border, which raised fears of the Kremlin using its military muscle to sway the outcome of a three-month crisis that has pitted Moscow against the West in a Cold War-style confrontation over the future of the strategic nation of 46 million. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/POOL / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
