FILE - In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 file photo, Air Force Col. Yuliy Mamchur, commander of the Ukrainian Belbek Air Base, leads his men to the base outside Sevastopol, Ukraine. The day after Crimeans voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, a man in a black raincoat turned up at the gate of the Belbek Air Base to demand that the Ukrainian forces holed up inside surrender to Russia. The Ukrainian commander of the base came out proudly wearing his visor cap decorated with gold wings - and refused. Having withstood five days of sustained intimidation and pressure to defect from his captors, Mamchur now awaits a hero’s welcome in the capital, Kiev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
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