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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 RFE/RL's Central Newsroom, reports of an offensive by Ukrainian forces in Krasnoarmiysk are confirmed:

Ukrainian security forces entered the town of Krasnoarmiysk in the Donetsk region and took control of the police department and local council building and seized ballots and voter lists at the polling stations.
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Some polling stations in Donetsk and Luhansk are going to be kept open until 10 p.m. local time, according to separatist officials.
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Ukraine has called the self-rule referendums being held by pro-Russian separatists in two eastern provinces a "criminal farce" that were organized by Moscow. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement the vote was "inspired, organized, and financed by the Kremlin."

Serhiy Pashynskyy, the acting head of Ukraine's presidential administration, said no referendum was held by the separatists in "two-thirds of [the territory] of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions."

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