DHAKA: British foreign secretary William Hague will visit Kiev on Sunday for talks with the interim Ukrainian government as tensions rise with Russia over Crimea.
A Foreign Office spokesman said, reports The Straits Times.
The spokesman had no further details about the trip, but Hague tweeted overnight, ‘Have just spoken to Acting President (Oleksandr) Turchynov’.
‘I will travel to Kiev on Sunday for talks with the new government.’
Turchynov had appealed to Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday to ‘stop military provocation’ and withdraw from Crimea, after pro-Russian gunmen seized the government and parliament buildings in the capital Simferopol.
BDST: 1827 HRS, MAR 01, 2014
