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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
17:41 25.4.2014
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry says National Guard troops have completely blocked off the city of Slovyansk "in order to prevent the terrorists from obtaining reinforcements."

17:32 25.4.2014
AP video of Obama in Seoul saying that, in the U.S. president's second term, Russian President Vladimir Putin "has had an increasing tendency to view the world through a Cold War prism." (h/t: @ChristopherJM)

17:27 25.4.2014

17:22 25.4.2014
Recalling some of the other journalists, politicians, and ordinary citizens that have been kidnapped in eastern Ukraine but, unlike Simon Ostrovsky, remain in captivity.

"The Kyiv Post" and the Committee to Protect Journalists have their own lists.

17:12 25.4.2014

17:11 25.4.2014
A VOA cameraman was among the first on the scene after a Ukrainian military helicopter exploded on the tarmac at a base in Kramatorsk -- reportedly after it was hit by gunfire or a rocket-propelled grenade -- leaving the pilot wounded but alive. Kramatorsk is in pro-Russian hands. (WARNING: graphic language)
Ukrainian Military Helicopter Explodes After Attack
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17:01 25.4.2014

17:01 25.4.2014
Czech President Milos Zeman announced "a unanimous recommendation" from the EU and Eastern Partnership states that "the Russian Federation -- as a peaceful gesture with the aim of de-escalating the Russia-Ukraine conflict -- pull back its forces from the Ukrainian border."

He added that there was also a recommendation that Ukrainian officials "carry out a decentralization of the country in line with the conclusion of the Geneva conference."

16:54 25.4.2014
In Prague for the EU Eastern Partnership meeting, Ukrainian acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya says, according to Reuters: "We have signed the Geneva statement on de-escalation of the situation in eastern Ukraine and we do believe that there is still a chance to implement this statement. However, the chances are getting lower and lower, since Russia is not willing or committed to all the provisions of this document."

16:52 25.4.2014
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree establishing a Crimean Post Office.

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