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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
10:52 4.5.2014
Ukraine's Channel 5 television is reporting that Ukrainian troops have dismantled a barricade erected by separatists between Kramatorsk and Druzhikivka, in Donetsk Oblast.

The channel also reports that several buses and minibuses have been set alight by separatists in Kramatorsk, where the Ukrainian military is carrying out a counterinsurgency operation.

No casualties were reported.
10:57 4.5.2014
You can keep an eye on the goings-on in Kharkiv's central square via this live feed ...
10:58 4.5.2014
11:33 4.5.2014
Images, video making the rounds today purporting to show pro-Ukrainian activists trying to save separatists from the burning trade-union building in Odesa.
11:33 4.5.2014
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11:51 4.5.2014
A correspondent from "Rossiya 24" television reporting from Slovyansk that the city remains "under siege." Says the city is surrounded by the Ukrainian military, that no shots were fired overnight or this morning, but that it "appears some activities will be carried out soon."

Two strategic buildings in the city center -- the security services building and the City Council building -- remain in the hands of "the militia," according to the correspondent. He reports, however, that the militia is trying to change positions.
11:53 4.5.2014
Interfax reports:

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the UN Security Council of inaction with regard to punitive operations in southeast Ukraine.

"Not a single country of the United Nations condemned the Ukrainian punitive operation at a time when local people died under rocket fire from Ukrainian helicopters in Sloviansk and when people burned in Odesa in a house set on fire by Right Sector militants. There is not a single conflict that the United Nations would have settled. And it won't in the future as long as the United States is imposing its will by stick and carrot," Kadyrov wrote in Instagram social network.

The Chechen leader noted that for a second time in a day he was forced to express his indignation with the actions of the Ukrainian authorities in cities of Donetsk region and other southeastern regions.

"If militant formations operate in Ukraine and the illegal authorities patronize them, then the results of the UN Security Council discussion of the situation in that country arouse ten-fold indignation. Even before when terrorists shed bloody in Chechnya and the UN remained silent I realized that the organization does not have a stance of its own, its own opinion. Almost all countries at the UN are acting only at the instructions of the USA and Western Europe. And the disagreeing are lining up after Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq," Kadyrov added.

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