SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Three Russian flags were flying at an entrance to Ukraine's naval headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Wednesday, witnesses said, as pro-Russian forces took control of at least some of the base without armed resistance.
It was the clearest sign so far that Russian soldiers, and so-called "self-defence" units of mainly unarmed volunteers who support them, had begun to take control of Ukrainian military facilities across the Black Sea peninsula.
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