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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
13:14 5.5.2014

12:57 5.5.2014
Our news desk has issued this item on events in Slovyansk:
Heavy fighting has been reported on the outskirts of the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was quoted as saying that there have been "deaths" as troops fight pro-Russian militants who control the city.

Rebel forces were reportedly withdrawing toward the center of the city after government forces took control of a television tower in the southern suburb of Andreyevka.

Slovyansk, a city of some 140,000 is one of a string of cities in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian rebels.

The government has vowed to continue an "antiterrorist" operation until it regains control.

Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has said Russia "is at war" with his country.

Russia denies the Ukrainian government's accusations that it is fomenting violence in southern and eastern Ukraine.

12:43 5.5.2014

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11:28 5.5.2014
Here's a subtitled video of the comments by Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov in which he said Russia was "at war" with his country:
Acting President Says Russia 'At War' With Ukraine
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Acting President Says Russia 'At War' With Ukraine
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11:06 5.5.2014
The Russian Interfax news agency has published this report on developments in Slovyansk:
Ukrainian troops have occupied the television tower in Slovyansk and the self-defense forces are retreating inside the city, a representative of the Slovyansk self-defense forces told Interfax.

"The television tower, which is located in the village of Andreyevka in the suburb of Slovyansk, has been taken over by the enemy. Fighting is going on in Andreyevka and Semyonovka. We currently have to retreat inside, behind the city line. The enemy is already on the territory of Slovyansk," the source said.

Several people were wounded during the night fighting. According to some reports, a young girl was killed.

Interfax currently has no official confirmation of the information on the people hurt in the fighting from the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies

10:57 5.5.2014

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