Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "2014 Russian take down of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea was an attack of unidentified armed personnel on 27 February 2014. The event became a benchmark of the Crimean crisis and the no-return point of secession of Crimea. According to Interfax-Ukraine, identified as the Self-defense of Russophone population of Crimea, heavily armed militants at night without a firefight secured the Ukrainian administration building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. In interview to Interfax-Ukraine residents of Simferopol stated that militants were professionals and there was enough weaponry to arm about 200 people including Kalashnikov and SVD rifles as well as RPGs.Some witnesses however state that it is possibly a Russian spetsnaz, while according to some Russian mass media those were members of the Berkut special police unit that was liquidated on 25 February 2014. According to the former Presidential representative Serhiy Kunitsyn and Prime Minister of Crimea Anatoliy Mohylyov, the militants were professionally trained. According to the leader of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov, it is possible that those people were from Sevastopol.The take down took place the next day after Ukraine asked the United Nations to monitor closer the events in Crimea.The take down took place around 4:30 in the morning. Around 9:00 in the morning there were spotted 7 BTRs of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (based in Hvardiiske airbase) moving towards Simferopol. Sometime after 10:00 Oleksandr Turchynov made a press release addressed to the leadership of the Black Sea Fleet to comply with the treaty of dislocation of the Black Sea Fleet, otherwise it will be treated as a direct aggression. Already at 11:30 BTRs turned back."@en }
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- 2014_Russian_take_down_of_the_Verkhovna_Rada_of_Crimea abstract "2014 Russian take down of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea was an attack of unidentified armed personnel on 27 February 2014. The event became a benchmark of the Crimean crisis and the no-return point of secession of Crimea. According to Interfax-Ukraine, identified as the Self-defense of Russophone population of Crimea, heavily armed militants at night without a firefight secured the Ukrainian administration building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. In interview to Interfax-Ukraine residents of Simferopol stated that militants were professionals and there was enough weaponry to arm about 200 people including Kalashnikov and SVD rifles as well as RPGs.Some witnesses however state that it is possibly a Russian spetsnaz, while according to some Russian mass media those were members of the Berkut special police unit that was liquidated on 25 February 2014. According to the former Presidential representative Serhiy Kunitsyn and Prime Minister of Crimea Anatoliy Mohylyov, the militants were professionally trained. According to the leader of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov, it is possible that those people were from Sevastopol.The take down took place the next day after Ukraine asked the United Nations to monitor closer the events in Crimea.The take down took place around 4:30 in the morning. Around 9:00 in the morning there were spotted 7 BTRs of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (based in Hvardiiske airbase) moving towards Simferopol. Sometime after 10:00 Oleksandr Turchynov made a press release addressed to the leadership of the Black Sea Fleet to comply with the treaty of dislocation of the Black Sea Fleet, otherwise it will be treated as a direct aggression. Already at 11:30 BTRs turned back.".