Friday, March 7, 2014

Ukraine standoff intensifies; Russia says sanctions will 'boomerang

from reuters


MOSCOW/SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine Fri Mar 7, 2014 11:04pm EST

A uniformed man, believed to be a Russian serviceman, stands guard near a Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalnoye, outside Simferopol, March 7, 2014. REUTERS-Vasily Fedosenko



(Reuters) - Russia said any U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine will boomerang back on the United States and that Crimea has the right to self-determination as armed men tried to seize another Ukrainian military base on the peninsula.
In a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against "hasty and reckless steps" that could harm Russian-American relations, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
"Sanctions ...would inevitably hit the United States like a boomerang," it added.

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