MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - The Russian Presidential Human Rights Council fears that the crisis in Ukraine may erupt into a large-scale humanitarian catastrophe.
"The escalation of violence and illegality will only lead to a humanitarian catastrophe on a Europe-wide scale at the very least," the council said in a statement.
"The political crisis that is rapidly driving the multiethnic people of Ukraine toward a catastrophe and that was largely caused by a sharp deficit of the legitimacy of state institutions, both national and local, is taking on alarming forms and requires interference on the part of foreign humanitarian organizations," it said.