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The US will not get involved in a “military excursion” in Ukraine, President Barack Obama said, stressing that Washington will pursue diplomatic means in the standoff with Russia over Crimea. “We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in Ukraine,” Obama told San Diego’s KNSD TV.