Ukraine's Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk is also invited to participate in the summit.
According to the President, EU member states are closely coordinating their position and actions in settling the crisis in Ukraine. She underlined that Russia's military intervention in the territory of sovereign Ukraine poses threats to the stability and security of entire Europe.
At the extraordinary meeting, the EU leaders will debate the stabilization of the situation and ways of peaceful solution to the crisis, possible support by European countries to Ukraine, promotion of trade with Ukraine, and international monitoring missions to Crimea. Lithuania has sent to Ukraine two observers to participate in the mission involving 12 countries. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is preparing two more observer missions to Ukraine to monitor the situation of ethnic minorities and elections.
