12:49
9.3.2014
#Donetsk's pro-#Russia leader Gubarev confirms neo-#Nazi past, says he 'learned a lot from the experience' #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ANBkE7PrwW
— Ukrainian Updates (@Ukroblogger) March 9, 2014
12:44
9.3.2014
Sunday afternoon in Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/LJTrmdcp9c
— Andrew Roth (@ARothNYT) March 9, 2014
12:42
9.3.2014
#Ukrainian railways has suspended sale of tickets to the #Crimea http://t.co/eSW4YP1fYi @ukrpravda_news | PR News
— Euromaidan PR (@EuromaidanPR) March 9, 2014
12:23
9.3.2014
Europe faces "great danger of a real shooting conflict" if Russian forces move beyond Crimea, according to the British foreign secretary.
William Hague accuses Putin of a major miscalculation in this article today by The Guardian, but says neither diplomatic pressure nor economic sanctions will remove Russian forces from the Crimean Peninsula
William Hague accuses Putin of a major miscalculation in this article today by The Guardian, but says neither diplomatic pressure nor economic sanctions will remove Russian forces from the Crimean Peninsula
12:13
9.3.2014
Kyiv Post reports there are two choices for voters in Crimea's March 16 referendum to join Russia -- "yes now", or "yes later".
There is no option for a "no" vote on the ballot.
There is no option for a "no" vote on the ballot.
12:04
9.3.2014
Still no confirmation of suggestions (including by "Ukrayinska pravda") that pro-Russian forces are planting land mines, possibly at Chongar, near the base of the Crimean peninsula. Photos being shared on social networks and a Ukrainian news report show at least one sign staked into the ground that warns "Mines!"
11:54
9.3.2014
#Ukraine marks birth bicentennial of her poet-prophet Taras #Shevchenko outside university named after him. #Kyiv pic.twitter.com/heUFvxHEWk
— Ukrainian Updates (@Ukroblogger) March 9, 2014
11:49
9.3.2014
RFE/RL's Tom Balmforth reporting from Vitali Klitchko's presser in Donetsk that he appealed as a Russian speaker for Russians in the east to keep Ukraine together. Balmforth reports that a pro-Russia protest has started in the city, with a few thousand supporters assembled on Lenin Square. Russian firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky is said to be in town and expected to speak.
Klitchko is supposed to speak at a pro-Maidan rally that begins at about 3:00 p.m. local time.
Klitchko is supposed to speak at a pro-Maidan rally that begins at about 3:00 p.m. local time.
11:41
9.3.2014
AFP reports that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during a Kyiv rally that Ukraine will not give "an inch" of its territory to Russia.
11:35
9.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reporting on the detention of Andriy Shchekun, leader of the Ukrainian Crimean Council, at a train station in Simferopol.
Shchekun in late February signed a statement by Crimea's Ukrainians calling on Kyiv to "protect all Ukrainian nationals residing in Crimea ... and not to succumb to acts of provocation staged by the forces acting against the state, according to Interfax-Ukraine. The statement also said that "Ukrainians living in Crimea and all those who supported EuroMaidan in Crimea, regardless of their ethnicity, are being threatened."
Shchekun in late February signed a statement by Crimea's Ukrainians calling on Kyiv to "protect all Ukrainian nationals residing in Crimea ... and not to succumb to acts of provocation staged by the forces acting against the state, according to Interfax-Ukraine. The statement also said that "Ukrainians living in Crimea and all those who supported EuroMaidan in Crimea, regardless of their ethnicity, are being threatened."