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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk says that there were, are and will be no grounds for Russia to launch military aggression on Ukraine's territory.

“As for our contacts with Russian counterparts, I’d like to stress again: there were, are and will be no grounds for the Russian Federation to launch military aggressions on the territories of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which is and will be part of the [Ukrainian] republic. In the past few days, there have been a number of provocations, which are probably believed by the Russian military to be aimed at legalizing the presence of the Russian armed forces on the autonomy’s territory,” he said at a briefing on Sunday.

The Ukrainian armed forces are protecting their own headquarters and military unites, Yatseniuk said.