First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema and Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh to immediately fly to Crimea

posted 19 March 2014 11:28

“At a government meeting Prime Minister A. Yatseniuk has just issued an order for First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema and Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh to immediately fly to Crimea to resolve the situation, de-escalate the conflict and ensure the conflict does not become military in nature”, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Ostap Semerak said at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers.

"Vitaliy Yarema and Ihor Tenyukh have already left the session of the Government and gone to the airport to fly immediately to the peninsula," Ostap Semerak added.

According to him, today at a meeting a decision on the formation of a wider Government group (which later Vitaliy Yarema and Ihor Tenyukh join) will be taken.