7 Apr 2014 12:05

Foreign intervention may be prepared in eastern Ukraine - Ukraine's PM

KYIV. April 7 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said a plan to destabilize the situation is being put in place in the eastern part of Ukraine.

"I would like to address all residents of the eastern regions of Ukraine. It's absolutely clear to everyone that an anti-Ukrainian, anti-Donetsk, and anti-Kharkiv plan is being implemented. A plan to destabilize the situation, a plan for foreign troops to cross the border and take over the territory of the country, which we will not allow," Yatsenyuk said, opening the government meeting on Monday.

Yatsenyuk said he is confident that the people of those regions would like to live in a unified country.

Yatsenyuk said Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister Vitaliy Yarema has left for Donetsk and Ukrainian Interior Minister Arseniy Avakov is now in Kharkiv.

In the early hours of Monday, the Ukrainian administration "came up with a plan of actions in connection with the attempts to destabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine" and officials have left for the eastern regions in regard of this plan, Yatsenyuk said.