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FILE - In this Saturday, March 8, 2014 file photo, Crimean Premier Sergei Aksyonov, center, speaks on a mobile phone as he attends the swearing in ceremony for the first unit of a pro-Russian armed force, dubbed the "military forces of the autonomous republic of Crimea" in Simferopol, Ukraine. Aksyonov, the head of Crimea's unrecognized Russian-backed government, has said Ukrainian solders will be allowed to surrender peacefully, leave the Crimea altogether or resign from the armed forces. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)
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A pro-Russian soldier is back dropped by Russia's flag while manning a machine-gun outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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FILE - In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo, Ukrainian soldiers guard a gate to their military base in the village of Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Ukraine. On the eve of a referendum vote that has the Black Sea peninsula resting on a razor’s edge, those facing the greatest and most fraught uncertainty was are Ukraine’s military forces on the peninsula, who have been hemmed in by heavily armed Russian troops and warned by the region’s pro-Russian leader that they would be considered “illegal” if they didn’t surrender. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
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A pro-Russian soldier is back dropped by Russia flag while manning a machine-gun outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
