Russia says won’t ignore Crimea plea

Russia says it will not ignore a request to President Vladimir Putin from the prime minister of the Ukrainian region of Crimea for help in restoring calm to the peninsula.

“Russia will not leave this request without attention,” a source in the Kremlin administration was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Crimean prime minister Sergei Aksyonov had said in a statement carried by local media, “I ask President Vladimir Putin for assistance in order to keep peace and calm on” Crimea.

On Friday, a group of armed men briefly seized an airport in the regional capital of Crimea. Eyewitness said about 50 gunmen in military uniforms arrived at Simferopol International Airport in military trucks to search for Ukrainian airborne troops.

The group, however, left after finding out that Ukrainian military forces were not present on the tarmac.

The airport incident came a day after dozens of gunmen seized the government and parliament buildings in Simferopol and hoisted Russian flags above the government headquarters.

Nearly half of the population of the autonomous Crimean region is Russian speaking.

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/01/352765/russia-says-wont-ignore-crimea-plea/

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