SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — For Anatoly Krepichev, it's a personal thing. After his former commanding officer in an elite Ukrainian police unit was killed last month .

Crimeans voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, according to preliminary results of a referendum that the West .



Crimea is mostly filled with Russian people but everyone fears what happened to Kiev might happen there and they want to avoid that as much as possible.