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## Video: Watch: Warning Shots Fired in Crimea

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_Published 2014-03-05. At The Belbek military base in Crimea, tensions between Ukrainian and Russian forces came dangerously close to spilling over Tuesday._


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## Transcript

Commander Yuli Momture leads his men unarmed towards the armed troops who have taken up position at their base in Belva, outside Sevastopol. As they approach the intruders, warning shots ring out. Still, they move forward. [ FOREIGN ] Stop or I'll be forced to shoot at your legs, I will shoot, this man shouts in Russian. [ FOREIGN ] You're standing there with machine guns responds Commander Mumchoor, and we're standing here without weapons. Cool heads prevailed, bloodshed was averted this time. But this encounter shows just how close this standoff is to becoming something much, much worse. Afterwards, back in the part of the base still fully under Ukrainian control, Commander Momture seemed relieved.

[ FOREIGN ]" The main thing is there shouldn't be any provocations towards our families and soldiers ," he says. We're hostages of this situation, and we don't want there to be any victims. Belbek is more than just a base. It's also home to dozens of military families who now find themselves caught in the middle. Valyia Bonderenko's husband serves here. She's brought food and drinks for the soldiers. [ FOREIGN ] We're asking our government and the Russian government to get together as quickly as possible to sort this out, she says. [ FOREIGN ] Base commanders have been served a series of ultimatums to surrender, to leave, to swear allegiance to an independent Crimea.

So far they've refused and are trying to convince the Russians to relent. 26 year old lieutenant Nikolai says he's just a soldier following orders. The. This is a political war and it's not acceptable he tells me. We're all brothers. A lot of us have relatives. Friends in Russia. [ FOREIGN ] Was perhaps those lingering ties that prevented violent confrontation here, the Ukrainians and Russians here are talking. But until the standoff is resolved, the dialogue is highly charged

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