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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
12:00 26.4.2014
Some informative tweets from Leonid Rogozin on Sloviansk military commander Igor Strelkov:

11:50 26.4.2014

11:49 26.4.2014
Video shows pro-Russian forces seizing a border post in Dolzhanski:

11:47 26.4.2014

11:46 26.4.2014
MIkhail Khodorkovsky rides the bus in Kharkiv. Pavel Sheramet tweets: "Khodorkovsky masters fashionable gadgets..."


11:43 26.4.2014
Looks like pretty sparse turnout so far at a separatist demonstration in Kharkiv. Pavel Sheramet tweets a photo:

11:41 26.4.2014
Life News shows documents of detained OSCE observers:

11:39 26.4.2014

11:30 26.4.2014
And Russia still deciding whether or not it will recognize Ukraine's May 25 presidential election. This, via Reuters:
Russia is reserving judgment on whether to recognize Ukraine's presidential election on May 25, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in an interview published on Saturday.

"We are watching how they take place," he said. "If tanks will be shooting, then of course (recognition) is absurd. But for now we aren't making categorical declarations and conclusions in advance."

Churkin also said it was possible the elections may not happen.

11:28 26.4.2014
Al Jazeera has a report out on the cost of the Ukraine incursion for Russia's economy:
Russia provides one-third of Europe's energy needs, yet after its foray into Crimea and increasing activity in eastern Ukraine, its economy has seen the most difficult conditions since the 2008 financial crisis.

It has seen capital flight of $63bn in the first three months of this year as investors dump the ruble. And that haemorrhaging of the economy is predicted to continue; the Russian finance minister said this week that the economy may see zero growth this year because of the unrest in Ukraine.
Check out the whole report here (with a 25-minute video)

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