Russia \\\'does not want\\\' Ukraine war
Friday, 14 March 2014
Russia's ambassador to the United Nations has told an emergency meeting of the Security Council that Moscow "does not want war" with Ukraine. Vitaly Churkin was responding to a direct question from Ukraine's interim PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk. But Mr Churkin gave an impassioned defence of Crimea's right to hold a referendum on whether to join Russia. In the east Ukraine city of Donetsk, one person died in violence between rival protesters, said officials. Several people were also injured as hundreds of pro-Russia protesters clashed with a similar-sized group of Kiev supporters in the city's Lenin Square, said local health authorities. It is the worst violence since the fall of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych on 22 February, according to BBC.