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Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine

 

Russia's upper house of parliament has approved President Putin's request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine.

 

He had asked that Russian forces be used "until the normalisation of the political situation in the country".

 

Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, where many ethnic Russians live.

 

Kiev has reacted angrily to days of military movements in Crimea, accusing Moscow of trying to provoke the new government into an armed conflict.

 

Interim President Olexander Turchynov has called an emergency session of his security chiefs.

 

Russia's Vladimir Putin submitted the request for troops "in connection with the extraordinary situation in Ukraine and the threat to the lives of Russian citizens", the Kremlin said.

 

The upper house went into a special session almost immediately after Mr Putin made the request, and swiftly approved it.

 

Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said, however, that this "does not mean that this right will be used quickly" to deploy troops.

 

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said his government viewed the unfolding crisis "with growing concern".

 

"There can be no excuse for outside military intervention in Ukraine - a point I made to President Putin when we spoke yesterday," he said on Saturday.

 

Top Ukrainian politician Vitali Klitschko has urged the interim government to declare a "national mobilisation".

 

The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency session in the coming hours, and EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss the situation.

 

The BBC's Richard Galpin in Moscow says it is potentially significant that Mr Putin's request was for deployment in Ukraine as a whole, and not specifically for flashpoints such as Crimea.

 

Earlier, the lower house of parliament had urged the president to take whatever measures were necessary to "stabilise" the situation in Crimea.

 

During the upper house debate, one legislator accused US President Barack Obama of crossing "a red line" with his comments that there would be costs if Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine.

 

The upper house has recommended that the Russian ambassador to the US should be recalled, although the decision lies with Mr Putin.

 

Ukrainian Defence Minister Ihor Tenyukh said on Saturday there are now an extra 6,000 Russian troops in Crimea, alongside an additional 30 armoured vehicles.

 

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wonder what the outcome of the Crimea independence vote will be, cant see a full on invasion when that is coming up anyway

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someone tell me in short why the russians are invading ukraine

 

 

Crimea used to be under russian rule, they transfered it over to the ukraine decades ago but its mainly populated by ethnic russians, so the tension between the pro-russia and pro-ukraine heads is bubbling due to the ousting of the pro-russian president

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