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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
08:09 2.5.2014
07:50 2.5.2014
Now RT is reporting that a fourth army helicopter has been shot down in Slovyansk.
07:45 2.5.2014
07:38 2.5.2014
07:36 2.5.2014
Slovyansk seems to be completely closed off now.
07:26 2.5.2014
07:18 2.5.2014
Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the self-styled separatist mayor of Slovyansk, is saying that two Ukrainian helicopters have been shot down.

He said one pilot had been killed and another captured.

Just a reminder: Slovyansk has been firmly under the control of the separatist forces since last month when insurgents first took control of the police headquarters.
07:15 2.5.2014
Here is a picture, purportedly of the pilot from a downed Ukrainian helicopter in Slovyansk.
07:13 2.5.2014
07:12 2.5.2014

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