Referendum 'no different to Scotland', Crimea minister says
Crimea's new information minister has told ITV News that the planned referendum on Sunday is no different to the situation in Scotland and Catalonia.
OSCE military observer mission blocked from Crimea
A team of 41 military observers, including two Britons, from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have been stopped from entering Crimea by unidentified men in military fatigues, the OSCE said.
"The mission has been detained, they cannot go further. They landed in Odessa and they were travelling by car from Odessa towards the Crimean Peninsula, but they were detained by unidentified men in fatigues," Poland's defence minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, told reporters.
He said it was possible the observers would be allowed to head back the way they came, but they could not go forward into Crimea.
Two Polish military officers are among the OSCE mission.
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Obama issues warning to Russia after meeting Ukraine PM
Barack Obama warned Russia that the West will be forced to apply a cost to Moscow if it fails to change course in its dispute with Ukraine.
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Crimea referendum ballot paper published
The ballot paper that the people of Crimea will use in Sunday's referendum was published today
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Vitali visits Donetsk in bid to ease Ukraine divisions
Vitali Klitschko's visit to the eastern city of Donetsk is clearly an attempt to try to ease the divisions with Ukraine.