European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, shakes hands with Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk prior to a meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday,6 March , 2014. (Photo:AP)
Russia is increasing tensions in Crimea, Ukraine's interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Thursday as he prepared to meet EU leaders holding an emergency summit on the crisis.
Kiev wants a political solution so "it depends on Russia (if) it is ready to fix this conflict ... or is Russia reluctant and (wants) to increase tension, as they did in the past few hours," Yatsenyuk said after meeting European Parliament head Martin Schulz.
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