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it looks like the Russian strategy is
beginning to change because over the
last few days the Russian military have
stepped into the background and local
political pro-russian groups have
stepped forward uh so that the Russian
army can say that this is an Invasion
that's supported by the local population
in fact Putin the president of the
Russian Federation came on TV yesterday
and said that those guys with
high-powered rifles are actually
self-defense forces from Crimea even
though there's not really any evidence
for that
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so the Russian soldiers actually helped
the Ukrainian Sailors get their food
through the window and it's the local
self-defense forces that are trying to
prevent vent them from getting any
packages we've come to the headquarters
of the Russian black seat Fleet and I
want to try to get the Russian
military's perspective now we're going
to call the Press
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service in order to get through to the
Press service here you have to come to
the base
itself dial a four digigit number from
this phone and then have nobody answer
you for
ages so the Black Sea fleet's Russian
press secretary just told me that he
doesn't have the authority to give us
any comment whatsoever and all questions
have to go through
Moscow the Russian Black Sea fleet's
headquarters aren't so shabby
so this guy is known as the surgeon he's
the leader of a Russian biker gang and
he's come here to support the pro
Russian forces this biker gang has a lot
of people around the various Ukrainian
admin ation buildings and military bases
but the interesting thing is he knows
Vladimir Putin
personally
for the Russian Black Sea fleet has been
based here since the 18th century but
when the Soviet Union fell apart it was
divided between the Ukrainian Navy and
the Russian Navy so a lot of the sailors
in both navies used to serve together
but now in this latest crisis they've
been brought against each other going
head-to-head and what the Russian Navy's
been doing is blockading these Ukrainian
ships from moving around the port or
leaving no
we've come to have a look at the
Ukrainian naval ship which is under
blockade right now it's down there it's
called the slavage and the uh Russian
Navy isn't allowing any of the Ukrainian
ships to move around the harbor but the
Russian soldiers here are trying to tell
us that we're allowed to film
all right well anyways let's try to
figure out if we can find another way
onto the ship because these guys aren't
letting us through
here careful
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so the situation is kind of tricky here
because the soldiers up there said that
they were part of the Defense Force of
Crimea but then when we come down here
another one of them comes over and says
that we have to leave under orders of
the Ukrainian defense Ministry but the
only people here wearing Ukrainian
Insignia are the sailors on the ship
over there and they asked us to come so
the fact that he didn't make us leave
makes me think that he didn't actually
have the authority to make us leave
the Ukrainian Navy asked us to come down
here because they've got an orthodox uh
prayer service going on right now this
ship the sluti it's the flag ship of the
Ukrainian Navy which is much smaller
than even just the Russian Black Sea
Fleet um and right now you can see that
they're in sort of defensive mode
because they've hung their mattresses
around the perimeter so it's harder for
the Russian snipers up there to see what
they're doing on board and I think the
prayer service sort of tells you what
the mood is like aboard the ship
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