14.04.2014 - 20:47 [ ITAR-TASS ]

Putin urges Obama to prevent bloodshed in Ukraine

“The Russian side stressed that protest rallies in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov, Slavyansk and other cities of the Ukrainian Southeast are a result of the Kiev leadership’s unwillingness and inability to take into account the interests of the Russian and Russian speaking population,” the Kremlin said.