INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Officials in Russian-controlled Crimea said Thursday they have ended an eight-year Ukrainian blockade of the peninsula and begun restoring
traffic via formerly Ukraine-held territory.Ukraine suspended train and bus services to Crimea and imposed a blockade on freight shipments
installed new local governments in the southern Ukrainian cities its troops have seized from Kyiv, and is apparently preparing to integrate
National Guard troops patroling their streets.
