13:52
8.3.2014
Reports say more than 5,000 pro-Russia demonstrators take to the streets in Donetsk. Demand release of pro-Moscow activist and businessman Pavel Gubarev.
Более 1000 человек участвуют в митинге в Донецке, требуя освободить "народного губернатора" Губарева (ФОТО) pic.twitter.com/zgHscJtYpk
— RT на русском (@RT_russian) March 8, 2014
13:53
8.3.2014
RT @gkates: "Yesterday Stalin, today Putin" - refers to Stalin's mass deportations of Crimean Tatars. pic.twitter.com/03zXDDmdtq #istanbul
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) March 8, 2014
13:55
8.3.2014
Ukrainian Border Service says Russia is continuing to move forces into Ukraine.
Погранслужба Украины: Россия продолжает переправлять войска в Крым http://t.co/xJC6grHPVQ
— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) March 8, 2014
13:55
8.3.2014
Some 250 people protested by Rus. consulate in Istanbul. Placed marker in front of consul-"Istanbul-Crimean tatars" pic.twitter.com/VzdqyEDQN9
— Glenn Kates (@gkates) March 8, 2014
13:57
8.3.2014
Agencies: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the European Union has decided to sign "immediately" the political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine.
14:21
8.3.2014
Russian "pseudojournalists" detained in Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, according to our Ukrainian Service:
Сімох псевдожурналістів із Росії затримала міліція у Дніпропетровську http://t.co/VDDOeDBTWe
— Радіо Свобода (@radiosvoboda) March 8, 2014
14:57
8.3.2014
From our latest story on the EU fast-tracking political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine:
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the European Union has decided to sign "immediately" the political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine, amid heightened tensions over Russia's involvement in Crimea.
Barroso, speaking at a summit of European regions and cities in Athens on March 8, said the EU has a "debt, a duty of solidarity" with Ukraine.
In a reference to an official crackdown against the so-called Euromaidan protests and related unrest sparked by ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to turn his back on an Association Agreement in November, Barroso said that "more than 100 people [have] already died for these values in Europe, in Ukraine [wanting] to follow the values of Europe."
"I think we have debt, a duty of solidarity with that country, and we will work to have them as close as possible to us," Barroso said. "We have decided also, immediately to sign -- because it was requested by the prime minister of Ukraine [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] -- sign the political chapters of the Association Agreement. Which means that Ukraine will seal its association with the European Union. That's I think we can do and should do now, but of course we'll do it in a way, we are trying to do it in a way that is peaceful."
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says the European Union has decided to sign "immediately" the political chapters of an Association Agreement with Ukraine, amid heightened tensions over Russia's involvement in Crimea.
Barroso, speaking at a summit of European regions and cities in Athens on March 8, said the EU has a "debt, a duty of solidarity" with Ukraine.
In a reference to an official crackdown against the so-called Euromaidan protests and related unrest sparked by ousted President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to turn his back on an Association Agreement in November, Barroso said that "more than 100 people [have] already died for these values in Europe, in Ukraine [wanting] to follow the values of Europe."
"I think we have debt, a duty of solidarity with that country, and we will work to have them as close as possible to us," Barroso said. "We have decided also, immediately to sign -- because it was requested by the prime minister of Ukraine [Arseniy Yatsenyuk] -- sign the political chapters of the Association Agreement. Which means that Ukraine will seal its association with the European Union. That's I think we can do and should do now, but of course we'll do it in a way, we are trying to do it in a way that is peaceful."
15:17
8.3.2014
15:20
8.3.2014
Pro-#Ukraine rally in #Crimea in the face of #Russian occupation. MT @mikekomar #Russia #CrimeaInvasion pic.twitter.com/qTyJjzfoj4
— Ukrainian Updates (@Ukroblogger) March 8, 2014
15:30
8.3.2014
Wire services are reporting that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Ukraine's Ambassador to Moscow, Volodymyr Yelchenko, have met in Moscow.
From Deutsche Welle:
From Deutsche Welle:
Russia's deputy foreign minister and Ukrainian ambassador to Moscow met in the Russian capital on Saturday to discuss rising tensions in the Crimea region, the Russian foreign ministry said.
"On the 8th of March, a meeting took place between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Ukraine's Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko during which, in an open atmosphere, questions of Russia-Ukrainian relations were discussed," a statement from the foreign ministry said.
"On the 8th of March, a meeting took place between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Ukraine's Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko during which, in an open atmosphere, questions of Russia-Ukrainian relations were discussed," a statement from the foreign ministry said.