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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
14:10 26.4.2014
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaking today to reporters during his visit to Rome:
"This is [more] proof and evidence that these so-called peaceful protesters with the Russian ID's (eds: identification cards) are real terrorists who detained and captured as hostages OSCE observers. This is unbelievable and unacceptable and disgusting. And despite all of this Russian authorities never condemn these terrorists and this is a clear sign that the Russian regime supports these gangsters, culprits and criminals."
14:00 26.4.2014
"In Slovyansk, a people's council is gathering to establish a new local administration."
13:57 26.4.2014
13:57 26.4.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has more on latest journalist detained in eastern Ukraine -- ZIK Television correspondent Yuriy Lelyavskiy

13:53 26.4.2014
Channel 5's report on Ukraine cutting off water supply to Crimea:
13:50 26.4.2014
Via Reuters:
Ukraine says one of detained int'l observers needs medical care

One of the international observers being held by pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk needs urgent medical care, Ukraine's state security service said on Saturday.

"Today the official representatives of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) are being held in inhuman conditions," the service said in a statement on its Internet site.

"Among those detained is a person who needs immediate medical help." The statement said Ukrainian security services were ready to provide medical assistance, but the separatists had rejected this offer.

"The terrorists plan to use the hostages as a human shield," the statement said.

It said the detention of the observers was planned and coordinated by a Russian citizen who Kiev says is a Russian special service operative. Russia denies that it has any of its troops or agents in eastern Ukraine.
13:49 26.4.2014
Some reactions to Ukraine cutting off Crimea's water supply:



13:23 26.4.2014
Some informed speculation from the always insightful Leonid Ragozin on why Strelkov went public:

13:21 26.4.2014
"Ukrainska pravda" reporting that another journalist has been seized in eastern Ukraine, bringing the total to 18 since the beginning of April.

13:14 26.4.2014
Some news agencies reporting that Russia is calling for the release of detained OSCE observers. Via AFP:
Russia on Saturday called for the release of an OSCE mission detained in Ukraine and vowed to do everything in its power to see them freed.

"We believe that these people should be released as soon as possible," the country's envoy to the pan-European security body, Andrei Kelin, told the state RIA Novosti news agency.

"As an OSCE member, Russia will take all possible steps in this case."

"We are unaware of what has happened to them or where they are at the moment. But like other OSCE members, we are very worried by what has happened."

Kelin added that responsibility for what happened lay with the Ukrainian authorities who had invited the mission.

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