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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 file photo, a pro-Russian soldier stands next to a machine-gun outside the Ukrainian infantry base in Perevalne, 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/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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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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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 file photo, a Ukrainian soldier peers from behind the gate of the Ukrainian infantry base in Perevalne, 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/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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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)
