Crimean town leans towards Kremlin

Residents of the town of Yalta, Crimea are reading about why they should join Russia, but they appear to need very little persuading.

One resident said she wished more leaders were like Putin and called the leaders in Kiev fascists, adding that the Black Sea peninsula has always been part of Russia and was only given away to Ukraine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalen came to Yalta in 1945 to redraw Europe's borders after the Second World War.

Russia could soon be redrawing its borders again in Yalta, but this time without the help of western powers.

Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from Yalta.