12:54
7.4.2014
12:58
7.4.2014
13:08
7.4.2014
Here's another update from RFE/RL's news desk:
Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov says the seizure of government buildings in eastern Ukraine and the declaration of a "Donetsk People's Republic" were engineered by Russia.
Turchynov said in a television address on Monday that the actions that began on Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kharkiv are "the second wave in Russia's special operation against Ukraine."
Pro-Russia activists occupying the regional government building in Donetsk announced Monday the creation of a separatist republic.
A speaker inside the Donetsk government building called for a referendum on the region's future to be held by May 11 and asked for Russia to send a "peacekeeping contingent" to protect the separatists.
Pro-Russia activists on Monday also looted an armory in Luhansk.
Turchyov said those who had "taken up arms [against Ukraine] will be targeted in antiterrorist operations."
Turchynov said in a television address on Monday that the actions that began on Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kharkiv are "the second wave in Russia's special operation against Ukraine."
Pro-Russia activists occupying the regional government building in Donetsk announced Monday the creation of a separatist republic.
A speaker inside the Donetsk government building called for a referendum on the region's future to be held by May 11 and asked for Russia to send a "peacekeeping contingent" to protect the separatists.
Pro-Russia activists on Monday also looted an armory in Luhansk.
Turchyov said those who had "taken up arms [against Ukraine] will be targeted in antiterrorist operations."
13:14
7.4.2014
Serhiy Chorniy, a cameraman with a regional television center in the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, speaking to Reuters today about an attack on the center by group of unidentified gunmen.
"I was standing by the window and saw about five cars driving up. They got out and immediately opened fire without saying a word. Well, they opened fire, pulled the gates open, started coming in through them. As they started shooting I moved away from the window and didn't see the rest."
13:30
7.4.2014
A group of pro-Russian separatists accidently stormed the opera house in Kharkiv, mistaking it for the mayor's office.
13:35
7.4.2014
Pictures are emerging of Stanislav Karachevskiy, the Ukrainian naval officer killed overnight by a Russian soldier in Crimea.
14:04
7.4.2014
Yulia Tymoshenko, who flew to Donetsk today, says pro-Russian separatists camped outside local government buildings are either servicemen or "marginals."
14:19
7.4.2014
Tymoshenko says regional authorities should be elected locallly, not appointed by Kyiv.
14:24
7.4.2014
Tymoshenko is calling for calm in Donetsk: no need for Ukrainains to rally against the takeover of government buildings.
14:31
7.4.2014
Clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian demonstrators in Kharkiv have left 10 people injured.