Ukraine is launching a “large-scale anti-terrorist operation” to resist attacks by armed pro-Russian forces, President Oleksandr Turchynov said in a televised address yesterday.

America accused Russia of bullying its embattled neighbour Georgia today as a working peace deal for the region still seemed far away.

Russian security forces killed two women in a security operation in Chechnya and said the two had planned a suicide bombing, a top military official told a news agency today.