13:25
15.3.2014
Scenes from a Saturday -- Moscow, Donetsk, Kyiv, Simferopol...
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15.3.2014
More reports that Russian paratroopers have landed in Herson Oblast. Unconfirmed as of yet...
13:53
15.3.2014
Bloomberg quotes Ukraine's Ambassador to Russia as saying Crimean secession could spark Tatar uprising and cuts in power and water supplies:
Russia’s planned annexation of Crimea threatens to trigger an armed uprising by the Tatar minority and cuts in power and water supplies from mainland Ukraine, the Kiev government’s envoy in Moscow said.
Tatars, who comprise about 12 percent of Crimea’s population of more than 2 million, will never agree to join Russia, Vladimir Elchenko said in an interview after talks with former Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev, who flew to the Russian capital this week to meet with President Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine will never recognize a Russian Crimea either, Elchenko said at the Ukrainian Embassy late yesterday. “Okay, Russia will take Crimea, but we’ll never recognize Crimea, and the world won’t,” Elchenko said. “It will be a frozen or not so frozen conflict that will last for years.”
Tatars, who comprise about 12 percent of Crimea’s population of more than 2 million, will never agree to join Russia, Vladimir Elchenko said in an interview after talks with former Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev, who flew to the Russian capital this week to meet with President Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine will never recognize a Russian Crimea either, Elchenko said at the Ukrainian Embassy late yesterday. “Okay, Russia will take Crimea, but we’ll never recognize Crimea, and the world won’t,” Elchenko said. “It will be a frozen or not so frozen conflict that will last for years.”
13:56
15.3.2014
Live feed of demonstrators in Donetsk storming SBU building:
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14:11
15.3.2014
It's still pretty tense in Dontesk.
Watch it develop on Hromadske TV's Live Feed:
Watch it develop on Hromadske TV's Live Feed:
14:14
15.3.2014
Some scenes from Kyiv from The Globe and Mail's European Bureau Chief Paul Waldie:
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15.3.2014
Meanwhile, on the markets...