and then, you know, it is possible that russia will begin a full on assault on these places that have been surrounded by russian troops for a tuesdays. the russians have claimed that they didn t issue an ultimatum. do you have any information to support that denial or can you disprove that? no, we can t disprove that. and there had been previous ultimatums and nothing happened. so the russian defense ministry said it didn t issue such an ultimatum, but the ukrainian defense forces said that they definitely received it. and journalists did report witnessing that ultimatum being handed to them. so, it s not quite clear who exactly is threatening whom, but the situation, you know, remains such that everyone is waiting for russia to play its hand and attack or not attack. what people in the area want or thinks, not the military but the people. i think ethnic russian community in crimea, which is the majority of the population on the peninsula, they are content to have t
possible that russia will begin a full on assault on these places that have been surrounded by russian troops for a tuesdays. the russians have claimed that they didn t issue an ultimatum. do you have any information to support that denial or can you disprove that? no, we can t disprove that. and there had been previous ultimatums and nothing happened. so the russian defense ministry said it didn t issue such an ultimatum, but the ukrainian defense forces said that they definitely received it. and journalists did report witnessing that ultimatum being handed to them. so, it s not quite clear who exactly is threatening whom, but the situation, you know, remains such that everyone is waiting for russia to play its hand and attack or not attack. what people in the area want or thinks, not the military but the people. i think ethnic russian community in crimea, which is the majority of the population on the peninsula, they are content to have the russian troops here pro