On the heels of reports that:
- *UKRAINE WON’T RECOGNIZE CRIMEA JOINING RUSSIA: INTERFAX
The Eastern Ukraine Kharkiv region’s governor Baluta warns:
- *RUSSIAN ARMY CONCENTRATED NEAR ROADS FOR QUICK INVASION: BALUTA
- *RUSSIA BOOSTS ARMY PRESENCE AT UKRAINE BORDER: KHARKIV GOVERNOR
And all of this after Putin confirmed that West’s sanctions are “irresponsible and aggressive and we will respond properly.”
Via Interfax:
Ukraine will not recognize the Autonomous Republic of Crimea’s and Sevastopol’s accession to the Russian Federation, nor will it recognize independence of the self-proclaimed Republic of Crimea, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
“We do not recognize and will never recognize either Crimea’s so-called independence or the so-called agreement on its accession to the Russian Federation,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said at a news conference on Tuesday.
