epa04159203 Workers prepare to load a military vehicle of an Ukrainian unit which was based in the Perevalnoe village, onto rail trailers at a railway station not far of Simferopol, Crimea, 08 April 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of March 2014 gave the order to return the military material to Ukrainian units which remained loyal to their oath and did not join the Russian army, after Russian forces had taken over all military bases in Crimea, a region that had been an autonomous republic within Ukraine. EPA/ARTUR SHVARTS