Скачать или смотреть Diplomatic efforts increase as Russian troops tighten their grip in Crimea

A diplomatic offensive is being ratcheted up with both German and British leaders having telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin urging him to pull back from Crimea.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have warned him that sanctions would follow if a contact group seeking a political solution was not formed soon.

But German and British criticism that a planned Moscow-backed referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia was illegal were batted away by Putin.

On the ground Russian forces...
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