"Twenty five people have died: eight of them after having been hospitalized in city hospitals (including a journalist from “Vesti” newspaper), and four in the hospital of the Interior Ministry. Thirteen victims have been conveyed to the Kiev city clinical bureau of forensic medical examination," the Ministry of Health reports.
Following the UN resolution, Ukrainian rioters have begun blocking checkpoints on the country's border with Poland, the State Border Service said.
Already several dozen trucks are queuing on the spot. Border guards have been trying to divert transport vehicles to other checkpoints," the spokesperson said.
U.N. General Assembly passed the non-binding resolution on Thursday, with 100 countries in favor, 11 opposed and 58 abstaining.
But "Counterproductive" is what Russia is calling a United Nations resolution that refuses to recognize the annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that the U.N. General Assembly resolution will only complicate efforts to settle Ukraine's internal political crisis.
The ministry accused Ukraine of seeking to distract from domestic tensions by blaming its problems on Russia. Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin has before the vote called the resolution "confrontational in nature" and said Crimeans have the right to self-determination.
Crimea's majority Russian residents voted to break away from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum earlier this month that Western powers deemed illegal.
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that Russian defense minister told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that all Ukrainian servicemen loyal to Kiev had left Crimea and the Russian flag was flying over all military sites on the Black Sea peninsula.
Warships, war planes and other military hardware seized by Moscow will be returned to the Ukrainian army, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin at meeting with senior Russian military officers.
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