(14 Mar 2014) Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Friday that Russia refused to negotiate with Ukraine to find a peaceful solution to its incursion in the Crimean peninsula.
Yatsenyuk addressed media at the airport in Kiev upon his arrival from a trip to the US, where he met US President Barack Obama.
Yatsenyuk emphasised that Ukraine didn't see "any desire on the Russian part" to resolve the crisis in a diplomatic way.
He said Russia has done nothing to end the crisis, but instead reinforced their military presence in the strategic Crimean peninsula.
Yatsenyuk also added that "all the measures that can be now provided by the civilised world in order to help Ukrainian armed forces technologically speaking are being executed already."
Also on Friday, a delegation of US senators, led by Republican Senator for Arizona, John Mccain, met with Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov to discuss tensions in Crimea.
On Sunday, Ukraine's pro-Russian Crimea region will vote whether to secede, and perhaps join Russia, in anger over new leaders in Kiev who seek to forge stronger economic ties with Europe.
The vote in Crimea - Ukraine's strategic Black Sea peninsula of 2 (m) million people - is widely expected to back secession and possibly lead to annexation by Russia at some point.
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