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From the agencies, via our news desk:
Ukrainian presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko reacted to a statement from former President Viktor Yanukovych about the need to hold a referendum on the status of every region in Ukraine. Tymoshenko said late Friday that if the statement from earlier in the day did indeed come from Yanukovych it is evidence he has become an "instrument of the fight against Ukraine, against the Ukrainian people." Tymoshenko said Yanukovych would be held "criminally responsible" for his calls for separatism, deployment of troops into Ukraine, toppling the legitimate government and other offenses. In the statement, Yanukovych called for the referendum and also called the current authorities in Ukraine unconstitutional and said the situation amounts to "anarchy." He also asked the Party of Regions to remove him as honorary chairman and to cancel his membership in the party. (ITAR-TASS, Reuters)
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28.3.2014
City authorities have carried out an inspection tour of Kyiv's bomb shelters as lawmakers accused Russia of fomenting trouble in the Ukrainian capital after having annexed the Black Sea region of Crimea.
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Barring any breaking news, that ends our blogging for March 28.
00:14
29.3.2014
News agencies: the White House says Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Barack Obama today to discuss a U.S. diplomatic proposal for Ukraine. Obama suggested to Putin that Russia put a concrete response in writing to U.S. proposal for Ukraine. Obama also suggested to Putin that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet to discuss next steps.
12:54
29.3.2014
Good morning. With growing speculation that Russia will invade mainland Ukraine, Russia is working hard to allay those fears.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia has “absolutely no intention” to cross over Ukraine’s border. Read our latest news wrap here.
Writing in "Foreign Policy," Michael Weiss gives 10 reasons why he thinks the Russians will invade mainland Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia has “absolutely no intention” to cross over Ukraine’s border. Read our latest news wrap here.
Writing in "Foreign Policy," Michael Weiss gives 10 reasons why he thinks the Russians will invade mainland Ukraine.
13:01
29.3.2014
Writing in the "Telegraph," Roland Oliphant goes on the hunt for Russia's massed army.
But the Russian invasion force - if it is here - is very well camouflaged. As the fog lifted, murky shapes were revealed as trees, houses and old Lada cars. No tanks emerged from the gloom, no suspicious flights of helicopters passed overhead, and no green painted trucks rumbled down the roads.
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29.3.2014
Kharkov. Separatism in the air in small quantities. pic.twitter.com/GrAbzfTTZs
— max seddon (@maxseddon) March 29, 2014