Ukraine said one of its soldiers was killed in Crimea Tuesday in the first case of bloodshed since Russian troops and pro-Kremlin militia seized the rebel peninsula almost three weeks ago.
"The conflict is
shifting from a political to a military stage," Ukraine's Prime
Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told an emergency government meeting.
"Russian
soldiers have started shooting at Ukrainian military servicemen, and
that is a war crime," he said at the nationally televised session.
He
was speaking after President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty claiming
Crimea as Russian territory following the Black Sea region's
overwhelming vote on Sunday in favour of switching from Ukrainian to
Kremlin rule.
Regional defence
ministry spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov told AFP the soldier had died
after being shot in the neck when a group of gunmen stormed a Ukrainian
military base in the northeast of Crimea's main city of Simferopol.
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