U.N. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, far left, speaks after listening to U.N. Ukraine Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, far right, during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Monday March 3, 2014 at U.N. headquarters. Ukraine's mission to the United Nations claimed Monday that 16,000 Russian troops have been deployed in the strategic Crimea region, while Russia's U.N. ambassador told an emergency Security Council meeting that Ukraine's fugitive president requested them. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)