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'We can Reduce you to Radioactive Ash': Russian State TV issues Stark Warning to the US as Ukraine Mobilizes 20,000 Troops and Moves Closer to All-Out War





Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are now on high alert, as well as another 20,000 battle-ready reservists, prepared to fight should their government fail to find a solution to the standoff with Russia over the future of the Black Sea peninsular. And yesterday, the head of its state news agency, Dmitry Kiselyov, issued a thinly-veiled threat to America on live TV, urging the superpower to stay out of the crisis or risk facing the full force of Russia's military muscle.



Ukraine Mobilises its Army as Kremlin ups the Ante with Warning to America of War

  • Ukraine deploys 20,000 national guard troops with another 20,000 reserves
  • Russia, meanwhile, has an army of 700,000 battle-ready frontline soldiers
  • Yesterday, Russian state news agency chief warns US to stay out of crisis
  • Dmitry Kiselyov tells TV viewers Russia could turn US to 'radioactive ash'
  • Ukraine foreign minister voes to 'defend our homeland' if Russia advances
  • Europe impose sanctions on 21 Russians and Ukrainians and US targets 11
  • Obama: '[Land grab] will isolate Russia and diminish its place in the world'
  • Hague vows to lead Europe's bid to reduce its reliance on Russian energy
  • Ukraine recalls ambassador to Russia to discuss international effects
By Daily Mail UK, 17 March 2014


The Crimean crisis moved a step closer to all-out war today as Ukraine mobilised its armed forces and a firebrand Kremlin mouthpiece warned America to stay out of its business, declaring: 'We could turn you to radioactive ash.'
In a sign of rising tensions following yesterday's referendum that called for Crimea's annexation to Russia, the Ukrainian parliament approved the deployment of its armies as it vowed to 'defend our homeland' from any land grab.
More than 40,000 battle-ready Ukrainian soldiers are now on high alert, prepared to fight should their government fail to find a solution to the standoff with Russia over the future of the Black Sea peninsular.

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On guard: Members of a military special unit stand guard in front of a Ukrainian parliament
building in Kiev today as Ukraine's parliament authorised their mobilisation




Tall order: With a national guard of 20,000 troops coupled with 20,000 battle-ready reservists, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
are dwarfed by a Russian army that includes more than 700,000 active frontline personel and many more in reserve




Tense moments: A Ukrainian self defense volunteer group line up in Kiev ready to fight in case a solution to the crisis is not found


But with a pool of just 160,000 active frontline personel, the Ukrainian armed forces are dwarfed by a Russian army that includes more than 700,000 men and women and many more in reserve.

And yesterday, Moscow appeared to up the ante further when the head of its state news agency, Dmitry Kiselyov, issued a thinly-veiled threat to America on live TV, urging the superpower to stay out of the crisis or risk facing the full force of Russia's military muscle.





'We can turn you to ash': Speaking against a backdrop of a nuclear mushroom cloud, Russian state news agency chief, Dmitry Kiselyov,
issued a thinly-veiled threat to America on live TV, urging it to stay out of the crisis or risk facing the full force of Russia's military muscle









Close ties: Russian television journalist Dmitry Kiselyov (Top) was handpicked by
Russian President Vladimir Putin last year to head a new state news agency





Mystery troops: Armed soldiers without identifying insignia keep guard outside of a Ukrainian military
base in the town of Perevevalne near the Crimean city of Simferopol. They are believed to be Russian






Tight control: Russia is bolstering its own presence in the region too


Speaking against a backdrop of a nuclear mushroom cloud, Kiselyov - who was handpicked personally by president Putin - told viewers of his popular show: 'Russia is the only country in the world that is realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash.'
He made the incendiary remarks after US president Barack Obama began, alongside Europe, to impose sanctions on Russia and vowed to get tougher if it follows through with its planned annexation of Crimea.





Russian might: Armed men, believed to be Russians, march at their camp
near the Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye outside Simferopol






Tensions rising: With a national guard of 20,000 troops coupled with 20,000 battle-ready reservists, the Ukrainian armed forces are
dwarfed by a Russian army that includes more than 700,000 active frontline personel (pictured) and many more in reserve






Russian troops: Meanwhile, Crimea's parliament today declared the region an independent state, after its
residents voted overwhelmingly to break off from Ukraine and seek to join Russia (pictured: A Russian soldier in Crimea)




More troops: Russia is expected to face strong sanctions today from the European Union & U.S. over backing the Crimean referendum





Business as usual: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, presents flowers to biathlon paralympic
champion Mikhalina Lysova during an awards ceremony in Sochi on Monday some 400 miles away






Time for sanctions: During a White House press briefing, Obama warned that continued Russian
military intervention in Ukraine would only increase Russia's isolation and exact a greater toll on its economy



But today a Russian takeover of Crimea seemed as likely as ever as the region's parliament declared itself an independent state, after a regional referendum saw 96.6 per cent of its residents vote to break off from Ukraine and join Russia.

The referendum, however, is not recognised by the West, and the United States and the European Union are preparing sanctions against Russia, whose troops have been occupying Crimea for several weeks.

The White House has dismissed the succession vote in Crimea as an illegal power grab by Russia, saying it violated both the Ukrainian constitution and international law, and urged president Putin not to follow through with threats to annex the peninsular.


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BATTLE READY: HOW RUSSIA AND UKRAINE'S FORCES MEASURE UP

Russia

Population: 145,500,482

Active frontline personel: 766,000

Active reserve personel: 2,485,000

Tanks: 15,500

Armoured fighting vehicles: 27,607

Total aircraft: 3,082

Naval vessels: 352

Ukraine

Population: 44,573, 205

Active frontline personel: 160,000

Active reserve personel: 1,000,000

Tanks: 4,112

Armoured fighting vehicles:6,431

Total aircraft: 400

Naval vessels: 25
And today a senior US diplomat revealed there is 'concrete evidence' that some ballots arrived 'pre-marked' in the referendum adding that other voting anomalies were also detected.


As a shot across Russia's bows, Obama today imposed sanctions on 11 Russians and Ukrainians blamed for Russia's military incursion into Crimea, including two top aides to Russian President Putin, banning travel to his country and freezing any assets held within its borders.

Among those sanctioned were ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich and Putin aides Vladislov Surkov and Sergei Glazyev.

During a White House press briefing, Obama warned that continued Russian military intervention in Ukraine would only increase Russia's isolation and exact a greater toll on its economy.

'If Russia continues to interfere in Ukraine, we stand ready to impose further sanctions,' he said.

Amid fears that Russia might move into eastern Ukraine, Obama said further provocations will achieve nothing except to 'further isolate Russia and diminish its place in the world.'

Senior administration officials who briefed reporters on the penalties said they were the most comprehensive sanctions applied to Russia since the end of the Cold War.

The European Union took similar steps, targeting 21 people in Russia and Crimea while leaving open the possibility of adding harsher economic measures when EU leaders meet later this week.

At a briefing today, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague revealed Britain would join Europe in reducing its dependence on Russian energy which currently supplies 30 per cent of the continent's gas.

'We have started today discussing the longer term, the need to reduce European dependence on Russian energy over many years to come,' he said. 'It is some of these sorts of things that will be the biggest costs in the long term to Russia if we make no diplomatic progress over the coming weeks.'

As Ukraine recalled its ambassador to Russia for consultations on the international ramifications of the situation in its Crimea region, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Deshchytsya also came out fighting today, promising that his government was 'prepared to defend our homeland'.
He told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme: 'We are very much concerned with the deployment of Russian troops on the eastern border of Ukraine and the number of provocations made by Russians in eastern regions of Ukraine.

'We are prepared to defend our homeland if Russia will decide to move further into the eastern parts of Ukraine.'

Mr Deshchytsya said the sanctions agreed today were a 'step forward in mobilising the international community'.

'But I think we also need to deepen our relations with the European Union,' he said.
Parts of the Crimea is now swarming with well-armed soldiers without identifying insignia but believed to have been sent across the border by Russia.




No insignia: Parts of the Crimea is now swarming with well-armed soldiers without
identifying insignia but believed to have been sent across the border by Russia






In control: Russian forces effectively took control of Crimea late last month after Russia-friendly
President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in the wake of months of protests





Well-armed: Russia's army is more than four times the size of that of Ukraine


Crimean lawmakers have asked the United Nations and other nations to recognize it.
A delegation of Crimean lawmakers is set to travel to Moscow Monday for negotiations on how to proceed further. Russian lawmakers have suggested that formally annexing Crimea is almost certain.

The Kremlin clearly put the issue on a fast track. Both houses of parliament were set to gather for a joint meeting in the Kremlin on Tuesday to hear President Vladimir Putin's address on the subject.

In Kiev, the national parliament approved acting President Oleksandr Turchynov's call for a military mobilization that would include 20,000 volunteers with previous military experience, and reservists.
Ukraine recently formed a national guard also about 20,000-strong.





Defiant: A man fixes the Crimean flag near groups of armed soldiers without identifying insignia who
are keeping guard outside a Ukrainian military base in the town of Perevevalne



Turchynov said the order was necessary "considering the continuing aggression in ... Crimea, which Russia is trying to disguise with a large farce called `referendum,' which will never be accepted by Crimea or the whole civilized world," he was quoted as saying by the Intefax news agency.

Russia is expected to face strong sanctions from the U.S. and Europe over backing the Crimean referendum, which could also encourage rising pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine's east and lead to further divisions in this nation of 46 million. Residents in western Ukraine and the capital, Kiev, are strongly pro-West and Ukrainian nationalist.

Russian forces effectively took control of Crimea late last month after Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in the wake of months of protests.


'OUR SANCTIONS SEND A STATEMENT':
HAGUE DEFENDS VISA BANS AND ASSETS FREEZES OF RUSSIANS BLAMED FOR CRIMEA CONFLICT

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Tough talk: The Foreign Secretary said Russian 'acts of provocation' had done nothing to ease tensions in the region as he restated the EU's refusal to accept the outcome of the referendum on Crimea's future

Sanctions against Russia will send a 'strong statement' about the European Union's resolve to tackle the Ukraine crisis, William Hague said today.
The Foreign Secretary said Russian 'acts of provocation' had done nothing to ease tensions in the region as he restated the EU's refusal to accept the outcome of the referendum on Crimea's future.
Mr Hague and European counterparts were meeting to discuss the use of asset bans and travel freezes against named individuals in Russia, with the Foreign Secretary saying he was 'confident' that agreement on the list of targets would be reached.
Arriving at the meeting in Brussels, he said: 'They will be a very important statement of what European countries believe about this and the unacceptability of trying to settle disputes in Europe in the 21st century by armed force and the threat of annexation rather than by negotiation and the use of international law.
'It will be a very strong statement about that, and quite important measures for the individuals concerned as well.'
In a warning to Moscow that even tougher sanctions could follow, he said: 'The important thing is that we are also prepared to move to further measures and there will be long-term costs and consequences for Russia if they continue to approach things in this way.'
He called on Moscow to enter into talks with the new government in Kiev, but said Russia had so far done nothing to 'de-escalate' the crisis.

'What we look to Russia to do is to enter into a diplomatic process and framework that brings the Russian leaders into direct contact and negotiation with Ukrainian leaders,' he said.
'That is what we have been pressing for over the last two weeks. It can be provided through an international contact or co-ordination group, supported by many other countries. We are all ready to do that.
'Of course, they need to take their own steps to de-escalate this situation. Russia's actions, including proceeding with the referendum yesterday, other acts of provocation, the presence on the border of large numbers of Russian troops - they have not done anything to de-escalate so far.
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