This puts at least one nail into Kuchma's attempt to rerun the entire election, with a new candidate to replace Yanukovych. That was the scheme for which he got Putin's blessing when he rushed off to Moscow yesterday.
Now we'll see what else Kuchma has up his sleeve.
[UPDATE] A lovely piece of FT snark:
The European parliament usually has difficulty organising a roll call, so how to explain the mass appearance of hundreds of orange scarves as MEPs debated the crisis in Ukraine on Thursday?
Step forward Jacek Saryusz-Wolski and his fellow members of the centre-right Civic Platform from Poland.
The MEP sent an assistant out to find 1,000 scarves and paid for half of them himself, the rest coming from a whip-round of colleagues.
Nevertheless, Observer hears some of the more couture-conscious MEPs went out to buy their own, designer, brands.
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