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Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema has warned against provoking bloodshed in Crimea.

“The main thing today is to prevent bloodshed and by no means to
react to provocations by those persons who have occupied the parliament
building. It matters because it seems to me that this is precisely what
they are waiting for so as to organize mass riots there,” Yarema told
reporters in Kyiv on Feb. 27.

I am heading to my office to do whatever is necessary to stabilize the situation in Crimea, he said.