trader4 @ optonline.net, using double-spaced formating, wrote:

Aksenov also claimed March 1 to have command of all military forces,
police and other security services in the region. He declared that
the armed forces, the police, the national security service and
border guards will answer only to his orders. He says that any
commanders who don't agree should leave their posts.

Which clearly he has no authority to do.

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Crimea is an autonomous parliamentary republic within Ukraine and is
governed by the Constitution of Crimea in accordance with the laws of
Ukraine. The capital and administrative seat of the republic's
government is the city of Simferopol, located in the centre of the
peninsula. Crimea's area is 26,200 square kilometres (10,100 sq mi) and
its population was 1,973,185 as of 2007. These figures do not include
the area and population of the City of Sevastopol (2007 population:
379,200), which is administratively separate from the autonomous
republic. The peninsula thus has 2,352,385 people (2007 estimate).
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It's a complicated area of the world, and the politics of who ultimately
controls or governs it is certainly not clear to us.