Saturday 15 March 2014 15.34 Russia has vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that declares tomorrow's referendum in Crimea as invalid.
Russia's ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin told the Security Council in opening remarks in New York today.
"It is a secret to no one that the Russian Federation will vote against the resolution," Mr Churkin told the Security Council before the vote was to be held.
While Russia voted against the resolution China abstained, isolating Moscow further on the Ukraine crisis.
The draft resolution, which says tomorrow's referendum would have no validity, got 13 votes in the 15-member Council.
However, it was rejected when permanent member Russia exercised its veto.
It comes after Ukraine's military scrambled aircraft and paratroops this afternoon to repel an attempt by Russian forces to enter a long spit of land belonging to a region adjacent to Crimea, Ukraine's defence ministry has said.
"Units of Ukraine's armed forces today... repelled an attempt by servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to enter the territory of Kherson region on Arbatskaya Strelka," a ministry statement said.
"This was repelled immediately."
It said the Ukrainian military used aircraft, ground forces and its aeromobile battalion in the operation.
The territory in question is a long spit of land running parallel to the east of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, now controlled by Russian forces.
Earlier, Ukraine's acting president accused "Kremlin agents" of fomenting deadly violence in eastern cities.
His claim is one of the most direct and highest-level criticisms aimed by Ukraine at Russian President Vladimir Putin to date.
From his speaker's chair in parliament, interim head of state Oleksander Turchynov referred to three deaths in two incidents this week in Donetsk and Kharkiv.
He told opposition politicians: "You know as well as we do who is organising mass protests in eastern Ukraine - it is Kremlin agents who are organising and funding them, who are causing people to be murdered."
Mr Turchynov has warned of a risk of a Russian invasion of the east following Russia's occupation of the Crimean peninsula.
Ukrainian officials have called on people in the mainly Russian-speaking cities of the industrial east not to rise to provocation that Russia might use to justify sending in troops.
Two people were killed in clashes that broke out between pro-Moscow and pro-Kiev supporters in Ukraine's Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv, police said this morning.
One pro-Russia protester and a passerby were killed when Ukrainian nationalists opened fire on a group of men trying to storm their headquarters in the city late last night, police sources said.
The deaths have heightened tensions in the region, coming less than a day after Russia warned that it reserved the right to protect compatriots in the whole of Ukraine.
Police said events leading to the deaths began when a group of nationalists opened fire from inside a car at a pro-Russian protest being held on Kharkiv's central Svoboda (Freedom) Square.
No one was reported seriously hurt in the incident.
However, a group of several dozen pro-Russian protesters chased the car, tracking it to the headquarters of the Patrioty Ukrainy (Ukrainian Patriots) nationalist group.
The pro-Russians tried to storm the building and the nationalists opened fire, killing one of them along with a passerby, police said.
The Patrioty Ukrainy group then took several hostages from other offices inside the building as the police arrived, the police sources said.
Six people were injured in the ensuing gunfight, including a police offer who suffered serious wounds.
The nationalists eventually agreed to give up their arms and surrender. Police said they made 30 arrests.
It marked the second death in two days in Ukraine's east, where a pro-Kiev supporter was stabbed to death in the city of Donetsk late on Thursday.
Tensions have spiralled in the region ahead of tomorrow's vote in Ukraine's southern peninsula of Crimea on whether to secede from Ukraine and switch to Russian rule.
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