Horrific video from #Kharkiv,where pro-Russia mob forced a handful of pro-Ukraine protesters to crawl to their safety http://t.co/1lDuX4kugj
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) April 6, 2014
@kyivpost picks up the translation of my Komersant interview. http://t.co/1UpXGGZ1MX
— Geoffrey Pyatt (@GeoffPyatt) April 6, 2014
Meanwhile, in #Odessa Ukrainian nationalists, pro-Russian separatists stage rival rallies http://t.co/cEFUdiqdor pic.twitter.com/mPV4Uieaml
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) April 6, 2014
#Ukraine's interim president Oleksandr #Turchynov cancels visit to Lithuania, calls an emergency meeting with law enforcement ministers
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) April 6, 2014
Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, has cancelled a trip to Lithuania scheduled for April 7 to deal with pro-Russia protests in eastern Ukraine.
Turchynov also held an emergency meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies after protesters in two major eastern Ukrainian cities -- Donetsk and Luhansk -- seized a regional government building and a state security office on April 6.
In Donetsk, a group of protesters barricaded themselves inside the regional administration building.
They threatened to set up a "people's council" and demanded that a referendum like the one held in Crimea be held in the Donetsk region over whether it should join Russia.
In Luhansk, Ukraine's Security Service, the SBU, released six pro-Russia activists who were arrested last month after protesters broke into its office.
Pro-Russia protests were also held in Kharkiv.
!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!
Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has canceled a trip to Lithuania to deal with "separatist" protests in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Sunday pattern that pro-Russian thugs try to stir up trouble in Eastern Ukraine. Heavily supported by Kremlin propaganda machine. And more.
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) April 6, 2014
If regional council doesn't have a quorum by midnight, separatists say will dissolve it and create a people's council instead tomorrow at 12
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) April 6, 2014