Telegraph's Roland Oliphant reports on the in a tense standoff that has developed as Russian troops surround a military base in Ukraine's Crimea region
Hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday and a dozen Ukrainian soldiers placed a tank at the base's gate, leaving the two sides in a tense standoff.
Unidentified troops pulled up to the Ukrainian military base at Perevalne on the Crimean Peninsula in a convoy that included at least 13 trucks and four armoured vehicles with mounted machine guns.
The trucks carried 30 soldiers each and had Russian license plates.
Colonel Valery Boyko, Deputy Commander of the 36th Coastguard Brigade told reporters at the scene that the Ukrainian forces intended to protect the "military hardware, weaponry and ammunition inside."
Telegraph's Roland Oliphant, who is outside base said: "As far as we understand there is a truce here.The Ukrainian Colonel who is in command of this base told us he has agreed with his Russian counterpart that the Russians will not enter.
"The question we are all wondering is how long this peace will hold? Will the Russians receive an order to disarm the Ukrainians or will they go home."
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