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In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 file photo a man in an unmarked uniform, right,  looks at Ukrainian crew members of the Ukrainian corvette Khmelnitsky as it was seized in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russia marks one year anniversary of annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula this week. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 file photo a man in an unmarked uniform, right, looks at Ukrainian crew members of the Ukrainian corvette Khmelnitsky as it was seized in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russia marks one year anniversary of annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula this week. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this Saturday, March 22, 2014 file photo a pro-Russian militia member holds a pistol while Russian soldiers assault the Belbek airbase, outside Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, March 22, 2014 file photo a pro-Russian militia member holds a pistol while Russian soldiers assault the Belbek airbase, outside Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this Saturday, March 15, 2014 file photo Russian and Crimean flags fly over a local government building as Soviet State founder Vladimir Lenin's statue dominates over landscape in downtown Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, March 15, 2014 file photo Russian and Crimean flags fly over a local government building as Soviet State founder Vladimir Lenin's statue dominates over landscape in downtown Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)




In this Thursday, March 6, 2014 file photo a Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel “Ochakov” from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)

In this Thursday, March 6, 2014 file photo a Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel “Ochakov” from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)




In this Monday, March 3, 2014 file photo people stand aboard the Ukrainian navy corvette Ternopil at the harbor of Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Monday, March 3, 2014 file photo people stand aboard the Ukrainian navy corvette Ternopil at the harbor of Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this Wednesday, March 26, 2014 file photo a boy runs with a Russian national flag at the Crimean parliament in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Alexander Polegenko/AP Photo)

In this Wednesday, March 26, 2014 file photo a boy runs with a Russian national flag at the Crimean parliament in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Alexander Polegenko/AP Photo)




In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo Ukrainian soldiers, left and unidentified gunmen, right, guard the gate of  an infantry base in Privolnoye, Crimea.  (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo Ukrainian soldiers, left and unidentified gunmen, right, guard the gate of an infantry base in Privolnoye, Crimea. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)




In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo unidentified gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms block the entrance of the Crimean Parliament building, with a poster reading “Crimea Russia” in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo unidentified gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms block the entrance of the Crimean Parliament building, with a poster reading “Crimea Russia” in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)




In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 file photo pro-Russian people with Russian flags celebrate a referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia, in Lenin Square in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 file photo pro-Russian people with Russian flags celebrate a referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia, in Lenin Square in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)




In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo Russian solders walk as a local resident waves with Russian flag outside of a Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalne, outside of Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo Russian solders walk as a local resident waves with Russian flag outside of a Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalne, outside of Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)




In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo, a Ukrainian man stands in protest in front of gunmen in unmarked uniforms as they stand guard in balaklava, on the outskirts of Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo, a Ukrainian man stands in protest in front of gunmen in unmarked uniforms as they stand guard in balaklava, on the outskirts of Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 file photo people with Russian flags celebrate a referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia, in Lenin Square in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

In this In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 file photo people with Russian flags celebrate a referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia, in Lenin Square in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)




In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo local residents carry a Russian flag and shout slogans rallying over the streets in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 file photo local residents carry a Russian flag and shout slogans rallying over the streets in Simferopol, Crimea. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)




In this Tuesday, March 18, 2014 file photo people wave Russian flags as they gather at a square to watch a televised address by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federation Council, in Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, March 18, 2014 file photo people wave Russian flags as they gather at a square to watch a televised address by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federation Council, in Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo an unidentified armed man guards the gate of Ukraine's infantry base in Privolnoye, Crimea. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo an unidentified armed man guards the gate of Ukraine's infantry base in Privolnoye, Crimea. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)




In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 file photo pro-Russian people celebrate in the central square in Sevastopol, Crimea, as residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 file photo pro-Russian people celebrate in the central square in Sevastopol, Crimea, as residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 file photo officers of the Ukrainian navy ship Lutsk raise a Russian navy flag aboard the Lutsk, which has been seized by Russia, in Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)

In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 file photo officers of the Ukrainian navy ship Lutsk raise a Russian navy flag aboard the Lutsk, which has been seized by Russia, in Sevastopol, Crimea. (Photo by Andrew Lubimov/AP Photo)




In this Friday, March 21, 2014 file photo people watch fireworks at the central Lenin square in Simferopol, Crimea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea on Friday, signing a law making the Black Sea peninsula part of Russia. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

In this Friday, March 21, 2014 file photo people watch fireworks at the central Lenin square in Simferopol, Crimea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea on Friday, signing a law making the Black Sea peninsula part of Russia. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)




In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Russian Iskander missiles make their way through Red Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia.  (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Russian Iskander missiles make their way through Red Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles to its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games intended to showcase the nation's resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)




Russian sailors march during celebrations to mark Navy Day in the port of Sevastopol July 27, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Russian sailors march during celebrations to mark Navy Day in the port of Sevastopol July 27, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)




A woman kisses a Ukrainian serviceman through the gate as he stands on the territory of a military unit located in the village of Lyubimovka near a local airfield, southwest of the capital Simferopol March 3, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

A woman kisses a Ukrainian serviceman through the gate as he stands on the territory of a military unit located in the village of Lyubimovka near a local airfield, southwest of the capital Simferopol March 3, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)




Local women watch armed men, believed to be Russian soldiers, assemble near a Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoe, March 5, 2014. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Local women watch armed men, believed to be Russian soldiers, assemble near a Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoe, March 5, 2014. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)




Pro-Russian supporters walk after breaking into the territory of the naval headquarters in Sevastopol, March 19, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Pro-Russian supporters walk after breaking into the territory of the naval headquarters in Sevastopol, March 19, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




Members of Crimean self-defense units and Interior Ministry members block a topless activist from the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, who is taking part in an anti-war protest, near the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)

Members of Crimean self-defense units and Interior Ministry members block a topless activist from the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, who is taking part in an anti-war protest, near the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)




A Russian tank crew member runs in front of his T-72B tank after their arrival in Crimea in the settlement of Gvardeiskoye near Simferopol March 31, 2014. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

A Russian tank crew member runs in front of his T-72B tank after their arrival in Crimea in the settlement of Gvardeiskoye near Simferopol March 31, 2014. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)




A pro-Russian supporter with the Russian national flag on her shoulders takes part in a meeting in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

A pro-Russian supporter with the Russian national flag on her shoulders takes part in a meeting in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)




An attack helicopter, believed to Russian, flies over a Russian military base at the port of Sevastopol March 6, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

An attack helicopter, believed to Russian, flies over a Russian military base at the port of Sevastopol March 6, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




An Ukrainian soldier stands near an armored personnel carrier at a checkpoint near the village of Salkovo, in Kherson region adjacent to Crimea, March 18, 2014. The words on his arm read as: “If you want peace, prepare for war”. (Photo by Viktor Gurniak/Reuters)

An Ukrainian soldier stands near an armored personnel carrier at a checkpoint near the village of Salkovo, in Kherson region adjacent to Crimea, March 18, 2014. The words on his arm read as: “If you want peace, prepare for war”. (Photo by Viktor Gurniak/Reuters)




A Russian soldier lies with his back to Ukrainian fighter jets as he watches Ukrainian serviceman at Belbek airport March 4, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

A Russian soldier lies with his back to Ukrainian fighter jets as he watches Ukrainian serviceman at Belbek airport March 4, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




A Ukrainian soldier looks at military personnel, believed to be Russian servicemen, outside the territory of a Ukrainian military unit in the village of Perevalnoye outside Simferopol March 3, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

A Ukrainian soldier looks at military personnel, believed to be Russian servicemen, outside the territory of a Ukrainian military unit in the village of Perevalnoye outside Simferopol March 3, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




A car drives with a Russian flag on a road outside the port city of Feodosia March 24, 2014. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

A car drives with a Russian flag on a road outside the port city of Feodosia March 24, 2014. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)




A Russian flag flutters over the “Sevastopol” hotel in Sevastopol March 29, 2014. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

A Russian flag flutters over the “Sevastopol” hotel in Sevastopol March 29, 2014. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)




People watch fireworks and wave Russian flags in Sevastopol, March 21, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

People watch fireworks and wave Russian flags in Sevastopol, March 21, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)




An official stands between two ballot boxes inside a polling station during the referendum on the status of Ukraine's Crimea region in Bakhchisaray March 16, 2014. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

An official stands between two ballot boxes inside a polling station during the referendum on the status of Ukraine's Crimea region in Bakhchisaray March 16, 2014. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)




Sailors work to remove an abandoned naval ship sunken by the Russian navy to block the entrance into the Donuzlav bay near the village of Mirny in Crimea's Saksky district, April 9, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Sailors work to remove an abandoned naval ship sunken by the Russian navy to block the entrance into the Donuzlav bay near the village of Mirny in Crimea's Saksky district, April 9, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)




A woman celebrates as the preliminary results of the referendum to break with Ukraine and join Russia are announced on Lenin Square in Simferopol March 16, 2014. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)

A woman celebrates as the preliminary results of the referendum to break with Ukraine and join Russia are announced on Lenin Square in Simferopol March 16, 2014. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)




Women talk as they take a walk with a child in a pram while armed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, follow them outside a Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye, near Simferopol, March 14, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

Women talk as they take a walk with a child in a pram while armed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, follow them outside a Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye, near Simferopol, March 14, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)




A woman reacts while holding a Russian passport after she received it at an office of the Russian federal migration service in Simferopol April 8, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A woman reacts while holding a Russian passport after she received it at an office of the Russian federal migration service in Simferopol April 8, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)




Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with military personnel during a ceremony marking Victory Day, in Sevastopol May 9, 2014. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with military personnel during a ceremony marking Victory Day, in Sevastopol May 9, 2014. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)




A Ukrainian naval officer passes by armed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, as he leaves the naval headquarters in Sevastopol, March 19, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

A Ukrainian naval officer passes by armed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, as he leaves the naval headquarters in Sevastopol, March 19, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)




Ukrainian servicemen wave out of a car window decorated with Ukrainian Navy flag prior to their departure to the Black Sea port of Odessa at the railway station in Sevastopol, April 6, 2014. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Ukrainian servicemen wave out of a car window decorated with Ukrainian Navy flag prior to their departure to the Black Sea port of Odessa at the railway station in Sevastopol, April 6, 2014. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)




Workers put up a new sign at the local parliament building in Simferopol March 19, 2014. The sign reads, “State Council of the Crimean Republic”. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Workers put up a new sign at the local parliament building in Simferopol March 19, 2014. The sign reads, “State Council of the Crimean Republic”. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)




Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd R), Crimea's Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov (front L), Crimean parliamentary speaker Vladimir Konstantinov (back L) and Sevastopol Mayor Alexei Chaliy shake hands after a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow March 18, 2014. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/Reuters)

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd R), Crimea's Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov (front L), Crimean parliamentary speaker Vladimir Konstantinov (back L) and Sevastopol Mayor Alexei Chaliy shake hands after a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow March 18, 2014. Putin and two Crimean leaders signed a treaty on making the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula a part of Russia. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/Reuters)




A woman walks by a poster calling people to vote in the upcoming referendum, in Sevastopol March 10, 2014. The poster reads, “On 16 March, we are choosing” and “or” (bottom). (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

A woman walks by a poster calling people to vote in the upcoming referendum, in Sevastopol March 10, 2014. The poster reads, “On 16 March, we are choosing” and “or” (bottom). (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




Members of pro-Russian self-defense units run together with plainclothes people outside a military base in Belbek March 22, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

Members of pro-Russian self-defense units run together with plainclothes people outside a military base in Belbek March 22, 2014. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)




Ukrainian men help pull one another out of a stampede as a flag of Crimea is seen during clashes at rallies held by ethnic Russians and Crimean Tatars near the parliament building in Simferopol February 26, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Ukrainian men help pull one another out of a stampede as a flag of Crimea is seen during clashes at rallies held by ethnic Russians and Crimean Tatars near the parliament building in Simferopol February 26, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




Flowers are placed on a Russian navy monument during a pro-Russia rally in Sevastopol March 8, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Flowers are placed on a Russian navy monument during a pro-Russia rally in Sevastopol March 8, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




A girl with Russian national flags painted on her cheeks takes part in celebrations marking the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

A girl with Russian national flags painted on her cheeks takes part in celebrations marking the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)




Members of pro-Russian self-defense units hold Russian and Crimean flags during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Members of pro-Russian self-defense units hold Russian and Crimean flags during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)




A couple stands next to armed servicemen outside a Ukrainian border guard post in Balaclava March 1, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)

A couple stands next to armed servicemen outside a Ukrainian border guard post in Balaclava March 1, 2014. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)




A man holds a Russian national flag while walking out of the cool waters of the Black Sea, as fans of winter swimming gather on a beach on the Orthodox Christmas day in the port of Yevpatoriya, January 7, 2015. (Photo by Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)

A man holds a Russian national flag while walking out of the cool waters of the Black Sea, as fans of winter swimming gather on a beach on the Orthodox Christmas day in the port of Yevpatoriya, January 7, 2015. (Photo by Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)




People hold banners in Russia's national flag colors during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

People hold banners in Russia's national flag colors during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in central Simferopol March 16, 2015. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
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