11:14
8.4.2014
Ukrainian police say the separatist activists detained in Kharkiv are mostly local residents, disproving claims of outside provocateurs.
10:57
8.4.2014
10:03
8.4.2014
Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov repeated to parliamentarians today his warning that pro-Russian separatists seizing buildings in the east will be tried as "terrorists," according to AFP.
"The authorities will treat separatists and terrorists who have picked up automatic weapons, who are seizing buildings, in accordance with the constitution and the law -- as terrorists and criminals," Turchynov said.
"The authorities will treat separatists and terrorists who have picked up automatic weapons, who are seizing buildings, in accordance with the constitution and the law -- as terrorists and criminals," Turchynov said.
09:59
8.4.2014
09:58
8.4.2014
if VOA and RFE/RL have been kicked off Russian airwaves, maybe it's time to stop @RT_com from broadcasting too?
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) April 8, 2014
09:58
8.4.2014
Russia and Crimea's breakaway regime are promising cheap gasoline next month for residents of the annexed peninsula.
Самопровозглашенная власть #Крыма обещает с мая бензин по российским ценам http://t.co/KgGOWyRJXw
— Крым. Реалии (@krymrealii) April 8, 2014
09:53
8.4.2014
A RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent reports that special forces have taken control of the Donetsk headquarters of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).
Спецпризначенці контролюють будівлю донецької СБУ http://t.co/0OZLOG3jbk
— Радіо Свобода (@radiosvoboda) April 8, 2014
09:43
8.4.2014
AFP quotes German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble as warning that Ukraine unrest could threaten efforts to balance the German budget next year.
09:39
8.4.2014
Reuters quotes NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen as saying events in eastern Ukraine are "a great concern" and asking Russia to pull back troops near the border:
"Events in eastern Ukraine are a great concern, I urge Russia to step back," Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a NATO conference in Paris. "Any further move to eastern Ukraine would represent a serious escalation rather than de-escalation."
He added that Russia had to pull back the "tens of thousands of troops" that had massed on Ukraine's borders.
He added that Russia had to pull back the "tens of thousands of troops" that had massed on Ukraine's borders.
09:22
8.4.2014
Interfax quotes the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Senchenko, as saying Kyiv will have to "engage International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in the protection of the Crimean nuclear site," in the agency's words.Senchenko is quoted as saying: "There is a nuclear site in Crimea -- an institute training atomic energy industry and NPP specialists and an operating nuclear facility, which is under the [sic] Ukrainian jurisdiction and is protected by an Interior Ministry Forces unit. The site has been seized and this is an emergency situation of a global scope."