Russia will abide by treaties regarding its Black Sea fleet in Ukraine’s Crimea region, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after Ukraine’s interim leader warned Moscow to keep troops at their bases.
“Regarding the statements about Russia’s violation of the agreements on the Black Sea fleet, we declare that in the current difficult situation the Russian Black Sea fleet is strictly adhering to said agreements,” Russian agencies quoted a Foreign Ministry
spokesman as saying. Ukraine’s interim president Oleksandr Turchynov earlier said that any movement of Russian troops out of their Black Sea bases “will be considered as military aggression”.