-- 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."
Ukraine's newest English-language channel, Ukraine News 1, is providinglive feeds in English. Curious to see how they do ...
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From today's pro-referendum rally in Donetsk:
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Russian media continuing to report on an overnight raid carried out by the SBU in Soledar, near Artemivsk, where a shootout reportedly took place and a separatist checkpoint dismantled. The intended target, apparently, was an arms depot in an old salt mine.
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Khodorkovsky holding a presser in Donetsk. This link to our Ukraine Service provides a live stream of the event:
