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Aleksandr Malykhin, chairman of Luhansk's separatist election commission, announces results of the referendum in the Luhansk region on May 12.
Aleksandr Malykhin, chairman of Luhansk's separatist election commission, announces results of the referendum in the Luhansk region on May 12.

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-- Self-appointed leaders of the Ukrainian separatist region of Donetsk appealed to Russia to consider absorbing it to "restore historic justice" and to send in troops.

-- Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk said they would not allow voting for the May 25 presidential election to be conducted.

-- Diplomats say the European Union agreed to impose sanctions against 13 additional individuals and two companies, believed to be the first time the EU has targeted companies over the Ukraine crisis.

-- Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov called the votes a "sham" and the United States said they were illegal and merely "an attempt to create further division and disorder in the country."

-- RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service said one of its affiliate radio stations in Donetsk was taken off the air by gunmen and replaced by a pro-Russian broadcaster.

-- The Kremlin said Ukrainian officials in Kyiv should hold talks with pro-Russian separatists on the results of the self-rule referendums, adding that it respected the "expression of the people's will."

-- Insurgents in eastern Ukraine said nearly 90 percent of voters backed self-rule in the votes.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
10:40 1.5.2014
The ultranationalist All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda party says that its local party leader in the eastern town of Kostyantynivka has been kidnapped. They claim it is the second such abduction there in as many days.
10:42 1.5.2014
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11:06 1.5.2014
Here is video of a moving speech by Maidan activist and pop star Ruslana Lyzhychko as she accepted the Atlantic Council's Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership award last night in Washington. "It's not for myself, but for all the people of Ukraine -- those who are still free," she said, offering an impassioned appeal to the United States and the international community to "stop Putin's aggression."

"A fixture of the Euromaidan during Ukrainian protests, Ruslana -- who originally gained fame as winner of the Eurovision song contest -- has been dedicated to advancing democracy and human rights in her country and beyond," the council said.

Ruslana concluded with a Ukrainian-English rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem.
11:09 1.5.2014
Our Ukrainian Service is livestreaming its coverage of what looks to be a sparsely attended pro-Russian rally in Kharkiv on its homepage.
11:10 1.5.2014
It's a very different story in Donetsk, however.
11:12 1.5.2014

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