SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine: UN special envoy to Crimea Robert Serry said Wednesday he cut short a mission to the disputed region after being threatened by unidentified pro-Russian gunmen and heckled by protesters.

Serry, who had been sent to the tense Black Sea peninsula by UN chief Ban Ki-moon, was confronted by armed men after visiting the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Crimea's capital Simferopol, he told CNN television by phone.

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