epa04103554 Unidentified armed men in military uniform patrol near a building at the airport in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, 28 February 2014. A group of armed men seized the airport of Simferopol – the peninsula’s capital city – in the early hours of Friday. Around 50 armed men in military uniform arrived in three trucks without licence plates, surrounding the domestic flights terminal before moving onto other parts of the airport, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported. The armed men, described by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov as Russian naval forces, also took control of a military airport near the port of Sevastapol where the Russian Black Sea Fleet has a base. Russia denied the accusations, saying that it had not deployed troops nor had any role in blockading the airport. Fears of a conflict in Crimea have intensified after Ukraine accused Russia of occupying two airports on the southern Ukrainian peninsula. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
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