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Ukraine authorities say separatists holding 60 hostages in Luhansk building
Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 4/8/14 | Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Giles Elgoo

Posted on 04/08/2014 9:23:45 AM PDT by Kartographer

Ukraine's state security service on Tuesday said that pro-Russian separatists have placed explosives in a building they seized in the eastern city of Luhansk and are using weapons to hold around 60 people against their will.

Pro-Russian separatists occupied the SBU building on Sunday evening in one of a series of attacks in the east of the country. At least nine people were injured when the separatists broke doors and windows throughout the building and raised the Russian flag.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: hostages; luhansk; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko

1 posted on 04/08/2014 9:23:45 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

And Lavrov has told Kiev not to use force in eastern Ukraine.


2 posted on 04/08/2014 9:28:03 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Kartographer

Putin will have to go in to save those that occupied the buildings!


3 posted on 04/08/2014 9:30:17 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be," -Epitap)
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To: Dallas59

It will be something like “We cannot tolerate such instability on our border. It is unsafe for our Russians.”


4 posted on 04/08/2014 9:31:48 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Dallas59

They wouldn’t have occupied the building in the first place if it wasn’t for George Soros. And Nazis. And homos.


5 posted on 04/08/2014 9:31:48 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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They wouldn’t have occupied the building in the first place if it wasn’t for George Soros. And Nazis. And homos.

You got it.

6 posted on 04/08/2014 9:34:07 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

This will not end well for anyone. Its the Riechstag Fire all over again.


7 posted on 04/08/2014 9:38:03 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Kartographer

Looks like Kharkov is going to be the next flash point.

Svoboda is bussing in headbusters from Kiev, and the pro-Russians are on them as soon as they arrive.


8 posted on 04/08/2014 9:39:38 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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9 posted on 04/08/2014 9:40:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Didn’t it?

Here is an interesting tweet from a few minutes ago:

One third of Kharkov policemen may be dismissed for sabotage - Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/25325498.html


10 posted on 04/08/2014 9:44:52 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Ukraine accuses Russia of orchestrating separatist moves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3141960/posts


11 posted on 04/08/2014 10:04:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: tcrlaf
Looks like Kharkov is going to be the next flash point.

Then Odessa.

12 posted on 04/08/2014 10:04:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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13 posted on 04/08/2014 10:29:30 AM PDT by Bobalu (Four Cokes And A Fried Chicken)
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To: Bobalu

Post of day. Is good.


14 posted on 04/08/2014 10:38:15 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Kartographer

If they didn’t like their government-instead of taking hostages they should have just built barricades in the streets and thrown firebombs at police.


15 posted on 04/08/2014 12:32:39 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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