Ukrainian PM rejects referendum in Crimea REFILING TO ADD HEADLINECrimeans voted Sunday in a unique referendum on breaking away from Ukraine to join Russia that has precipitated a Cold War-style security crisis on Europe's eastern frontier. Ukraine's new leaders and the West have branded as "illegal" the vote in the strategic Black Sea peninsula that has been under the de facto control of Russian forces for weeks. Ukrainian Prime Minister on Sunday rejected the referendum that he said was being held at gunpoint. Soundbites