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Kiev, Ukraine Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of conducting a large military buildup near the countries border that raises the threat of an invasion, but Moscow denied that.

Andriy Parubiy, secretary of Ukraines National Security and Defense Council, told reporters in Kiev that Russia has deployed more than 80,000 troops, up to 270 tanks and 140 combat planes close to the border, creating the threat of a full-scale invasion from various directions.

Parubiy said Russian troops are based in the immediate vicinity of the Ukrainian border, some of them as close as a two- or three-hour drive from Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.

In Moscow, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov denied a military buildup on the nearly 1,250-mile border.

He also said Moscow has accepted a request that Ukraine made Tuesday to conduct a surveillance flight over Russian territory.

Russian forces have secured control over Ukraines Crimean Peninsula, and Russias parliament has given President Vladimir Putin permission to use the military to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine.

Crimea plans to hold a referendum on Sunday that will ask residents if they want the territory to become part of Russia. Ukraines government and Western nations have denounced the referendum as illegitimate and warned Russia against trying to annex Crimea.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama expressed hope Wednesday that the referendum can be halted, as he met with the new leader of the former Soviet republic.

Sitting side by side in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Obama said he hoped last-ditch diplomatic efforts might lead to a rethinking of the referendum.

As Obama and Yatsenyuk met, a U.S. Senate committee advanced a measure to impose significant sanctions on Russia a bid to pressure Putin to pull Russian troops out of Crimea. The measure, which now would go to the full Senate, would authorize $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraines new government and allow the Obama administration to impose economic penalties on Russian officials responsible for the intervention in Crimea or culpable of gross corruption.

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Ukraine's parliament appealed on Thursday to the United Nations to discuss the occupation by Russian forces of its Crimea peninsula and said it reserved the right to ask individual countries for help in resolving the issue.

In a debate hours before Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk was to address the Security Council in New York, some members called for a U.N. peacekeeping force, though the resolution that was passed did not specify that form of assistance.

In a second vote, the chamber endorsed a document confirming that Ukraine sought deeper integration with the European Union.

A total of 250 members in the 450-seat assembly, which last month removed a Moscow-backed president, endorsed the appeal to the U.N., citing the "flagrant violation by the Russian Federation of the fundamental principles of international law".

Ukraine, the appeal said, reserved the right to ask "any state or regional system of collective security for help in restoring its sovereignty".

"Parliament must ask the U.N. to bring in a peacekeeping contingent," Oles Doniy, an independent member allied with parties favoring integration with Europe, told the chamber. "We cannot compete with Russia on our own."

But with Crimea now firmly in Moscow's hands for more than a week ahead of a referendum this Sunday on joining Russia, the parliament split along political lines.

Pro-European parties voted in favor.

Only two members of ousted president Viktor Yanukovich's Party of Regions voted in favor while others, saying they wanted first to see the outcome of Sunday's plebiscite in Crimea. Communists also abstained.

The appeal made no specific reference to the U.N. Security Council. Pro-European member Borys Tarasyuk, a former foreign minister, said such a move would be pointless as Russia enjoyed veto power in the 15-member Council.

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Ukraine parliament appeals to U.N. over Crimea

March 13, 2014

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk (third right) poses for pictures at a meeting with members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including chairman Senator Bob Menendez and ranking member Senator Bob Corker at the US Capitol in Washington yesterday. Reuters pic, March 13, 2014.Ukraine was set today to form a National Guard against Russia's expansionist threat after US President Barack Obama gave firm backing to the new leader from Kiev in a hardening Cold War-style standoff with the Kremlin.

The Verkhovna Rada parliament was expected to support the initial mobilisation of reservists and creation of a new force of at least 20,000 volunteers who could keep Russian troops from advancing beyond the Crimean peninsula they seized at the start of the month.

National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy said the new guard would "ensure state security, defend the borders, and eliminate terrorist groups" a term many in Kiev use to call the well-armed militias who patrol Crimea alongside Russian troops.

The flaring crisis on the eastern edge of Europe was sparked by the ouster last month of a pro-Kremlin regime that prompted President Vladimir Putin to seek and win the right to use force against a neighbour for the first time since a brief 2008 war with Georgia.

The new more nationalist but pro-European team that rose to power in Kiev on the back of the deadly popular uprising is viewed with derision by Putin and increasing warmth by leaders in the West.

Putin's March 1 decision to order troops into Crimea for the "protection" of the Russian-speaking majority there now threatens to bring down waves of political and economic sanctions that could leave the Kremlin more isolated from the West than at any point since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.

But Russia's parliament is still due to consider legislation next week simplifying the process for the annexation of Crimea a strong possibility after the Black Sea region holds a hotly disputed referendum on Sunday on switching over to Kremlin rule.

The European Union is due to consider travel bans and asset freezes on Monday against Russian officials held responsible for threatening Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Brussels is also expected next week to offer Ukraine a chance to sign an historic EU trade pact whose abrupt November rejection in favour of closer ties with Russia sparked the initial wave of Kiev unrest.

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