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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
11:15 12.5.2014
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10:13 12.5.2014
As reported earlier, a reporter from Russian nonstate media abducted:
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09:42 12.5.2014
Speaking to journalists ahead of the EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said:
"We had [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin the other day saying two things, that he thought that the so-called referendum should be delayed. That did not happen and he could possibly say that he doesn't control of events. He said, the other thing that he was going to do -- withdraw Russian forces from the border. That did not happen. And I think it would be difficult for President Putin to say he doesn't have control over the Russian forces."

"We also saw, by the way, that some persons in eastern Ukraine that we know are very closely tied into Moscow were very active in the so-called referendum. So we will see what happens. You have to judge Moscow less by the words and more by the actions. I think we have learned that during the past few months.

"Red lines are on the other side of the Atlantic. They are the ones that are in the business of red lines. I am not quite certain that we are. We are in the business of trying to help Ukraine. Develop its democracy, preserve its territorial integrity, reform its economy after decades of corruption and mismanagement. These are huge tasks that are going to be dominating the next few years. This is not a crisis that are going to pass in a week or two weeks. It is going be there for quite some time. We want to stabilize Ukraine, others want to destabilize Ukraine. That is the big difference."
09:33 12.5.2014
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