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Tensions are in Ukraine following last week's of president Viktor Yanukovych. Weeks of street demonstrations to Mr Yanukovych the country by helicopter in the middle of the night. Thousands of protestors in west Ukraine bloody battles in the capital, Kiev. Scores of people in the violence, many by riot police. The protestors were the resignation of Mr Yanukovych, economic reforms, and closer ties with the European Union. The east of the country did not see the levels of violence in the capital, largely because most people there for Yanukovych and more towards Russia than the EU.

The White House has it no longer Mr Yanukovych to be the president of Ukraine. The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also Russia not to in Ukrainian affairs. A White House spokesman said: "We strongly Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty." Fears are that Ukraine could break in two as pro-Russian separatists are more active, especially in the autonomous region of Crimea. Armed gunmen Russian military uniforms were reportedly Crimea's main airport on Friday. Ukraine's acting president Oleksander Turchynov Russia against "military aggression" after Russia 150,000 troops near the Ukrainian border.

 


 
 

 

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