Troops under Russian command fire weapons into the air and scream orders to turn back at an approaching group of over 100 unarmed Ukrainian troops at the Belbek air base, which the Russian troops are occupying, in Crimea.
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Col. Yuli Mamchor (left), commander of the Ukrainian military garrison, leads his unarmed troops to retake the Belbek airfield from soldiers under Russian command in Crimea.
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A Russian soldier on patrol passes by a child playing with his mother in front of an infantry base in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko (left) greets US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during a meeting in Kiev.
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A Ukrainian soldier kisses a woman as Russian soldiers surround a Ukrainian military base.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Kiev on Tuesday for talks with Ukraine’s new interim government, amid an escalating crisis in Crimea.
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Kerry greets a Ukrainian man as he visits the Shrine of the Fallen in Kiev. The shrine honors the “Heavenly Hundred” killed by police.
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Kerry meets with clergymen at the Shrine of the Fallen.
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Kerry lights a candle and lays roses atop the Shrine of the Fallen.
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Kerry stands beside a barricade at the Shrine of the Fallen.
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Kerry meets with Ukraine’s Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov (left) and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) at the Rada in Kiev. The Obama administration seeks to devise a diplomatic and economic strategy to reverse Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s Crimea region.
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