Kiev - Ukraine's acting president said on Thursday a referendum planned by the pro-Moscow parliament in Crimea on joining Russia was illegitimate, and declared it a farce and crime organised by the Russian military.
In a short televised address, Oleksander Turchinov said the Ukrainian parliament would start procedures to dismiss the Crimean assembly and block the referendum.
“It is not a referendum, it is a farce, a fake and a crime against the state which is organised by the Russian Federation's military,” he said, standing in front of the blue and yellow national flag.
Reuters