We don’t need invaders in our streets… We haven’t invited them. There is no violence here. By deploying Russian soldiers in the Crimea, they sow mutual suspicion and set people of different nationalities against one another.
— Crimean resident Ruslan Kavpak, speaking to the Los Angeles Times following Russia’s seizure of the region in which he lives (and ultimatum to Ukranian military forces to surrender). Kavpak is a forty-two year old ethnic Russian engineer.