Russian Warships Seen Off Ukraine Coast, Violating Agreement: Interfax

Russian Warships Seen Off Ukraine Coast, Violating Agreement: Interfax
Unidentified men in military fatigues stand in front of a poster reading ' The border of the country - is sacred and untouchable' as they block a base of the Ukrainian frontier guard unit in Balaklava on March 1, 2014. Ukraine's border guard service said that about 300 armed men were attempting to seize its main headquarters in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol under orders from Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)
Unidentified men in military fatigues stand in front of a poster reading ' The border of the country - is sacred and untouchable' as they block a base of the Ukrainian frontier guard unit in Balaklava on March 1, 2014. Ukraine's border guard service said that about 300 armed men were attempting to seize its main headquarters in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol under orders from Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

KIEV, March 1 (Reuters) - Two Russian anti-submarine warships have appeared off the coast of Ukraine's Crimea region, violating an agreement on Moscow's lease of a naval base, Interfax news agency quoted a Ukrainian military source as saying.

The source said the two vessels, part of Russia's Baltic Fleet, had been sighted in a bay at Sevastopol, where Moscow's Black Sea Fleet has a base.

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