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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
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RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has this update regarding detainees in Odesa:
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says 42 people detained over recent deadly violence in Odesa have been transferred to detention facilities in central Ukraine.

The transfer was announced today following the release of more than 60 pro-Russia detainees yesterday after a crowd of some 2,000 attacked the police headquarters in the southern port city demanding that they be freed.

On May 2, more than 40 people died in a blaze inside the building where pro-Russia activists had sought refuge amid street fighting with pro-Ukraine demonstrators.

Avakov voiced his "indignation" over the "shameful" release of people who he said were among those who had provoked the violence.

Meanwhile, Ivan Katerynchuk has been appointed the head of Odesa's police after his predecessor was fired for failing to prevent the violence.
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The Russian Interfax news agency has published this report on developments in Slovyansk:
Ukrainian troops have occupied the television tower in Slovyansk and the self-defense forces are retreating inside the city, a representative of the Slovyansk self-defense forces told Interfax.

"The television tower, which is located in the village of Andreyevka in the suburb of Slovyansk, has been taken over by the enemy. Fighting is going on in Andreyevka and Semyonovka. We currently have to retreat inside, behind the city line. The enemy is already on the territory of Slovyansk," the source said.

Several people were wounded during the night fighting. According to some reports, a young girl was killed.

Interfax currently has no official confirmation of the information on the people hurt in the fighting from the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies
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Here's a subtitled video of the comments by Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov in which he said Russia was "at war" with his country:
Acting President Says Russia 'At War' With Ukraine
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Acting President Says Russia 'At War' With Ukraine

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