but in entire ukraine.
Check the ethnic map of Ukraine.
... Doesn't give the russians the right to invade/occupy a sovereign country.
Otherwise europe could just aswell start occupying the US, canada, australia and God knows how many more countries. The dutch could occupy most of belgium following thesame reasoning...
If russia occupies the eastern, non-crimea part of ukraine it proves to be no better than germany invading poland. And putin proves himself to be the new Hitler.
There's no legal body in the eastern part of ukraine requesting help from russia. Only crimea has done so thus far.
The UN as well as the US will most likely look at it that way.
Even russian forces in crimea is by international law a breach of sovereign territory.(ukraine) Also, kiev is supposed to go in with military itself to protect crimea from the russians occupying the place. let's just hope the current people in power aren't stupid enough to try and regain military control over crimea. But by law, they should.