A senior Russian lawmaker said Tuesday that Russia will protect its compatriots in Ukraine if their lives are in danger.
Tuesday's statement by Leonid Slutsky, who heads a parliamentary committee in charge of relations with other ex-Soviet republics, reflected tensions in Ukraine's Crimea, a mostly Russian-speaking Black Sea peninsula that hosts a major Russian naval base.
"If lives and health of our compatriots are in danger, we won't stay aside," Slutsky said at a meeting with activists in Simferopol, the regional capital of the Crimea. He refused to elaborate.
Slutsky also said that fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych remains the only legitimate leader of Ukraine, adding that there is a "big question mark" over the legitimacy of the decisions made by the Ukrainian parliament since he left the seat of power.
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