Belbek

• Russian troops seize Crimea airbase as Moscow consolidates control

  Russian troops used armoured vehicles, automatic gunfire and stun grenades on Saturday to seize a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea a day after President Vladimir Putin signed laws completing Russia's annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.

• 

  Armoured vehicles break into Ukraine base in Crimea, shots fired

  Armed forces backed by armoured vehicles broke inside a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea on Saturday, firing from automatic weapons into the air.