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The 'Lt Col from Russia' who put himself in charge of Ukrainian police unit in Gorlovka is identified by a local resident as a former convict.

Adviser to the Ukraine's Interior Minister Stanislav Rechinski says pro-Russian separatists were captured.

An attack plane is flying over the airfield.

Ukraine's security service SBU says a Russian citizen is in charge of armed gunmen that have seized the town of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine.

Pro-Russian 'self-defense' forces capture a Ukrainian tank in Rodinskoye, Donetsk Oblast.

Ukraine's interim president Olexander Turchynov says the operation will be conducted ‘step by step, responsibly, cautiously’.

Groups of strangers fighting pro-Russian gunmen are reportedly active in Donetsk Oblast for now.

An active stage of the anti-terrorist operation is starting in East Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Security Service has published new materials proving that Russian diversionists are acting in East Ukraine.