Ukraine Orders Its Military Out of Crimea Held By Russia
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Ukraine said it would pull its military out of Crimea and fortify its eastern border with Russia as European leaders struggled to come up with a unified response to punish Vladimir Putin for annexing the breakaway Black Sea region.
Demilitarization “is the best way to de-escalate the situation,” Andriy Parubiy, head of Ukraine’s National Security Council, told reporters in Kiev, while declining to say when the evacuation would take place. “Troops from both Ukraine and Russia” should be removed from Crimea, he said.