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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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Our news desk has issued this item on events in Slovyansk:
Heavy fighting has been reported on the outskirts of the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was quoted as saying that there have been "deaths" as troops fight pro-Russian militants who control the city.

Rebel forces were reportedly withdrawing toward the center of the city after government forces took control of a television tower in the southern suburb of Andreyevka.

Slovyansk, a city of some 140,000 is one of a string of cities in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian rebels.

The government has vowed to continue an "antiterrorist" operation until it regains control.

Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has said Russia "is at war" with his country.

Russia denies the Ukrainian government's accusations that it is fomenting violence in southern and eastern Ukraine.
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RFE/RL's multimedia department has issued this subtitled video of Crimea's chief prosecutor Natalia Poklonska warning Crimean Tatars that their self-government body, the Mejlis, will be "liquidated" if it engages in "extremist" activities. Crimean Tatar leader Refat Chubarov insists that she address him in his own language or in Ukrainian.
Crimea's Chief Prosecutor Threatens To Ban Mejlis
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