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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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From our newsroom:
Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov has dismissed the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region, Mykhaylo Bolotskih.

Turchynov on May 10 replaced Bolotskih with Irina Veryhina, who was the first deputy chairman of the Luhansk region.

Bolotskih was appointed Luhansk governor on March 2.

Parts of the city of Luhansk have been under the control of pro-Russian separatists for weeks, and those breakaway groups are preparing an independence referendum for tomorrow.

Turchynov also said on May 10 he is prepared to hold talks with representatives from the separatist groups in eastern but not with people he described as "terrorists, whose goal is the annihilation of our country."

Turchynov specifically mentioned he would sit down for negotiations with representatives of the Donbass.
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According to RIA-Novosti, self-declared mayor of Slovyansk Vyacheslav Ponomaryov has announced that eight "militia" members were killed and "five or six" wounded.

He did not specify from what date the statistics were taken.

"Ponomaryov announced casualty figures since conflict began in #Slovyansk: 20 killed, of which - 12 civilians. 24 civilians injured."
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