• Dictator Vladimir Putin has been forced to pull back his jets and helicopters from Crimea after a massive blitz on Russian military bases – as humiliating video shows mutinying soldiers refusing to fight.
• Ukrainian intelligence sources claim some 24 fighter jets and bombers along with 14 choppers retreated deeper into the Black Sea peninsula – or back to mainland Russia.
• Meanwhile, footage showed the moment dozens of pro-Putin fighters mutinied by refusing to head to the frontline in Donetsk, in the east of Ukraine.
• “We, servicemen from mobilization reserve battalion 2740, refuse to go and fight in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” a statement read by one of the fighters said.

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