Saturday 22 March 2014 15.27 A Russian armoured vehicle has attempted to enter Belbek Airbase in Crimea where Ukrainian forces are resisting handing over control.
Russian troops had surrounded the Ukrainian airbase and issued an ultimatum to forces inside to surrender, the deputy commander of the base in Belbek, near Sevastopol, said.
The base, above which the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag was flying, is one of the few military facilities on Crimea still controlled by Ukraine after the annexation of the peninsula by Russian forces.
The ultimatum was due to expire at 12.30pm Irish time.
The Ukrainian commander has said he will be taken away by the Russian troops for talks. At least one Ukrainian soldier has been injured in the incident.
The Russian takeover of the Black Sea peninsula has been largely bloodless, though one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and two others wounded in a shooting in Simferopol earlier this week.
Ukraine's Defence Ministry said yesterday Crimea's bases were still formally under Ukrainian control, but most are now occupied by Russian troops and fly Russia's tricolour flag.
Meanwhile, Russia's foreign ministry has said Moscow has the right of a tit-for-tat response to the second wave of sanctions imposed by the European Union over Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea.
The EU imposed an new set of sanctions adding 12 Russians and Ukrainians to a list of people targeted by EU asset freezes and travel bans.
There are now 33 on the list. .
In a separate statement, the ministry said Moscow hoped the decision to send to Ukraine a monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe would help resolve what it called an "internal Ukrainian crisis".
After several failed attempts in recent weeks, Russia agreed to join the 56 other members of the OSCE in a consensus decision to send a six-month monitoring mission to Ukraine.
"The mission's mandate reflects the new political and legal realities and does not apply to Crimea and Sevastopol, which became a part of Russia," Russian Foreign Ministry said in its statement.
"Russia hopes that the objective and impartial work of the international observers will help to overcome the internal Ukrainian crisis, stop rampant nationalist banditry, eradicate ultra-radical tendencies."
At first, 100 monitors will be sent to locations around the country including Russian speaking areas in the east.
They will not be allowed access to Crimea which has been annexed by Russia.
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