the big winners, the moments after the show you might have missed plus the big question everyone wants answered? who takes the prize for best dressed? your new day continues right now. good morning and welcome once again to new day . it s monday, march 3rd, 8:00 in the east. ukraine and russia in a standoff over stronghold of crimea, ukraine s acting prime minister is giving a resounding rebuke against russia this morning this after an army official was injured when armed men tried to take over weapons depot. attacks have been reported on ukrainian border posts. thousands of russian troops have taken control of the peninsula, disarming ukraine forces and russian choppers are hovering over a border they share with ukraine. russia defends hits position.
putin quickly crossed. for all of the work here, though, it seems that maybe germany now has found the offramp to russia s course saying russia has accepted its proposal to establish a fact finding mission to ukraine and start a dialogue. kate? we ll see what that really means in practice. michelle, thanks and welcome to cnn. great to see you. thank you. russian s prime minister saying sunday that the ukrainian president s ouster made the region extremely unstable and could lead to new blood in his words. let s get to phil black in moscow with that new angle. phil, what s the latest from moscow? reporter: good morning. amid all the international criticism of russia, russia is claiming support from a fairly significant international power, china. foreign ministers from the two countries thorn spoke after which russia says their views coincide on the issue of ukraine. a later statement from chinese
warnings not to intervene. you just don t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests. reporter: crimea remains a stronghold of opposition to the new leadership in ukraine. this embattled semi-autonomous region near the border representing a country divided. in the east and in crimea, which belonged to russia until 1954, some want to rejoin their soviet roots. tensions in this east-west standoff over the future of ukraine now have the country teetering on the brink of disaster. and simferopol is calm where i am, pretty much business as usual, those locals tell us there are fewer people on the streets as normal. there does feel as though there is a war of information going on here between those who watch russian tv and those who get
threat to the peace in crimea but we ve seen no evidence there are any kind of radicals or ultranationalists who are in any way present in this region and about to disrupt the peace. let s not forget, though, that these troops who are on the ground are not wearing any kind of military insignia, not identifying themselves but it s pretty clear who they are. ukraine s military is on high alert this morning according to u.s. and ukrainian officials, thousands of russian ground and naval forces occupy the crimean peninsula with troops surrounding several bases and demanding ukrainian forces hand over their weapons. the ukrainian military is mobilizing troops and calling on army reservists to report for duty immediately. the ukrainian prime minister fears a wider invasion by russia. this is actually only the declaration of war to my country. reporter: ukrainian s ambassador the u.n. said his country needs military support
security chief correspondent jim sciutto. there s so many policies and cultures. it seems far away but it isn t. ukraine is in europe, kiev is miles away from rome, paris, london, that kind of thing and we have u.s. allies just to the west, poland, slovakia, hungary, romania. the u.s. is required to defend these countries militarily if they come under threat. crimea, appropriately colored red. why? because it has that pull toward russia. russia, right on the tip of russia, it s the headquarters of their black sea fleet, their on warm water port, all of the ports up here are cold, they don t have access to them in the winter. this is key. it s key when those thousands of russian troops moved into