09:17
11.3.2014
Yanukovych: I repeat, I did not abandon my post. I left because armed radicals had stormed the presidential administration. I will come back to Kyiv.
09:18
11.3.2014
Yanukovych: Any U.S. aid to current government violates U.S. law.
09:21
11.3.2014
Yanukovych: My administration was on the brink of launching much-needed economic reforms that will go unfulfilled due to anticonstitutional, illegal seizure of power by illegitimate forces. You'll be sorry! And with that, the presser is over after just 10 minutes.
09:40
11.3.2014
Russia not surprisingly cancels its ruble bond auction.. they couldn't sell ice water in hell right now
— Jason Corcoran (@jason_corcoran) March 11, 2014
09:45
11.3.2014
Yanuk gave a press-conference to say he's alive,he still thinks he's president,chaos in Ukraine,it's our own fault Russia invaded us.
— Kateryna_Kruk (@Kateryna_Kruk) March 11, 2014
09:46
11.3.2014
Russian Tigr-M mobile electronic warfare vehicle roaming western #Crimea today. (They brought some A-kit.) #kremlin pic.twitter.com/3CPfi6Qv5Z
— C.J. Chivers (@cjchivers) March 11, 2014
09:50
11.3.2014
Yanukovych in his presser questioned legality of U.S. pledge of $1 billion in assistance to Ukrainian government, citing U.S. Code 8422 on authorization of foreign assistance, which states that assistance is restricted "to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree."
10:04
11.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that the head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, due to hold press briefing in the coming hours announcing direct evidence of Russian intelligence "organizing sabotage and bribery" in Ukraine, "especially in the east."
10:14
11.3.2014
The Crimean Parliament has passed a declaration on the independence of the Crimean Republic and the city of Sevastopol . 78 of 81 deputies present vote in favor.