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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
13:59 1.5.2014
This is about the most complete video that captures the storming of the prosecutor's office in Donetsk, where police caches were raided and the police stripped of their equipment and forced to leave through a gauntlet of separatist thugs. (h/t @MaximEristavi)
13:53 1.5.2014
The Russian Foreign Minister warned in a statement today that any plans by Ukrainian security forces to carry out operations in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists have seized administrative buildings in more than a dozen cities, would have "catastrophic consequences."
13:38 1.5.2014
13:36 1.5.2014
13:35 1.5.2014
The separatist mob in Donetsk has taken down and burned the Ukrainian flag flying at the prosecutor's office that's under attack and raised the "Donetsk People's Republic" banner.
13:31 1.5.2014
RFE/RL Ukrainian Service journalists were attacked in Kharkiv as they tried to film individuals from a pro-Russian crowd trying to lower the Ukrainian flag from a regional administration building.
13:21 1.5.2014
There are said to be around 300 individuals involved in the storming of the Donetsk prosecutor's office, with many of them now scurrying around in helmets, protective vests, and wielding police or security equipment after those caches were raided.
13:04 1.5.2014
With the prosecutor's office in Donetsk under attack from a pro-Russian mob, authorities are said to be seeking to negotiate a way out of the predicament, according to our Ukrainian Service.
13:01 1.5.2014
12:59 1.5.2014

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