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Interfax Ukraine reports that a pro-Russian sniper fired a shot at parked Ukrainian military helicopter, resulting in an explosion. That brought more harsh words from Lavrov, who accused Ukraine of waging war on its own people.įor much more on how the crisis in Ukraine has unfolded, see our earlier posts.Īs the day has progressed, there has been more escalation. Pro-Russian separatists are occupying key buildings in a dozen eastern Ukrainian towns, defying the central government."Īnd in eastern Ukraine, government forces have relaunched an effort to root out those pro-Russian elements, correspondent Jessica Golloher tells our Newscast Desk. "Moscow has tens of thousands of troops along its side of the border, and on Friday the acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Koval told the Interfax-Ukraine agency that they had come within a kilometer of the border.

President Obama said this week that new economic sanctions are "teed up" if Russia doesn't begin to cooperate on resolving the crisis. The port of Sevastopol, Crimea, gives Russia a staging area for anti-access weapons in the Black Sea. may move to increase sanctions on Russia and individuals close to its president, Vladimir Putin. Russian submarines would slow down seaborne reinforcements to the Baltics, Holmes said. On Friday, Lavrov criticized what he says was Kerry's "unacceptable, accusatory tone." Parallels Does Russia Have The Military To Take Ukraine? Kerry also renewed the charge that Russia is funding, coordinating and fueling the armed separatist movement in eastern Ukraine, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Secretary of State John Kerry, who accused Russia of doing nothing to help implement last week's plan to calm tensions in Ukraine: "For seven days, Russia has refused to take a single concrete step in the right direction." Those sharp words followed this allegation Thursday by U.S. "The West wants - and this is how it all began - to seize control of Ukraine because of their own political ambitions, not in the interests of the Ukrainian people," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov charged, according to The Associated Press. "Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk accused Russia on Friday of wanting to start World War III by occupying Ukraine 'militarily and politically,' " Reuters reports. The crisis in Ukraine showed no signs of cooling Friday. On guard: a Ukrainian soldier at a roadblock near Slovyansk, in eastern Ukraine.