Posted on 04/29/2014 11:11:30 AM PDT by kronos77
(Reuters) - Hundreds of pro-Russian separatists stormed government buildings across one of Ukraine's provincial capitals on Tuesday and opened fire on police holed up in a regional headquarters, a major escalation of the rebellion in defiance of new Western sanctions.
Meanwhile Russian share prices rose in relief at the mildness of the newly announced U.S. and European sanctions over Moscow's involvement in the crisis, which amounted mainly to adding a small number of names to existing blacklists while putting off threats to take more serious measures.
Demonstrators smashed their way into the provincial government headquarters in Luhansk, Ukraine's easternmost province, which abuts the Russian border, and raised separatist flags over the building, while police did nothing to interfere.
As night fell, about 20 rebel gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons and threw stun grenades at the headquarters of the region's police, trying to force those inside to surrender their weapons, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.
"The regional leadership does not control its police force," said Stanislav Rechynsky, an aide to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, referring to events in Luhansk. "The local police did nothing."
The rebels also seized the prosecutor's office and the television center.
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Obama, Soros, McCain and the sodomites in Brussels are destroying freedom in the USA and Europe. You think they are going to give to those poor saps in Kiev?
Guestion: Was Texas part of another sovereign nation before it joined USA?
No, they are Nazis. They’re from Ukraine, remember?
Putin: USA behind Ukraine crisis.
http://rt.com/news/155732-putin-usa-behind-ukraine-crisis/
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