Crimean Soil News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

There are 30,000 russian troops here and can only grow as the day for the referendum draws closer. the self-appointed government has already said that only russian forces should be on crimean soil. and ukrainian troops should swear allegiance to russia or leave. a military office has been stormed here by armed pro russian forces. an air force base was attacked by russian troops after they rammed a truck into the gate. they eventually retreated, but the scene turned ugly when local militia began bashing journalists. warning shots were fired and they're now deciding whether or not they will try ...

Just that management has told us to stop broadcasting. obviously we're going against their rules by speaking to you now, but it's really important to get this message out that pressure is being placed on western media crews specifically on cnn. you know, earlier today, as you would have seen from that piece, we went out to a military base and there were lots of russian soldiers. now we only heard from vladimir putin the other day saying that there are no russian forces on crimean soil. well, that is completely untrue. and obviously saying this would be upsetting the pro-russian crimea governme...

The u.s. i think a really important thing here is the u.s. assessment that russian military forces have landed uncontested is very key. this is not a conflict in this area of crimea with the russian-supported population. so where this all goes now remains to be seen. how quickly will opposition to the russian presence develop in crimea? how long will the russians stay? what will they do next? how and when or will they even leave. wolf? >> let's go to crimea. right now, diana is our reporter on the scene. so what's going on over there. are these russian troops being warmly welcomed by the russi...