"Sevastopol looks, sounds and feels like a little corner of Russia, and activists here have declared that it will remain that way, no matter what happens in the rest of Ukraine", writes the Washington Post in the article on the situation in Ukraine, calling Sevastopol "a city loyal to Russia".
“We have our Russian language, Russian heroes and Russian culture,” the newspaper quotes Valeriy Bespalko, who stood in the drizzling rain earlier in the day to support the city’s new de facto mayor, who is a Russian, not Ukrainian, citizen and who took over City Hall two days ago.
"Hours after the new Ukrainian interior minister announced Wednesday that he would disband the elite police force that spearheaded most of the attacks on protesters in Kiev last week, its members were offered sanctuary here in Crimea, further stoking concerns about divided loyalties and old schisms in turbulent Ukraine", says the Washington Post.
“These people adequately fulfilled their duty to the country and have shown themselves to be real men,” the newspaper quotes Alexey Chaly, the new head of the Coordinating Council of Sevastopol.
