Pro-Moscow activists proclaim Ukraine city ‘Donetsk people’s republic’
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Pro-Russian protesters and their supporters sit next to a barricade erected in front of the seized regional government building in Donetsk. Photograph: Stringer /Reuters
Pro-Russia activists occupying regional offices in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, today proclaimed the creation of a separatist Donetsk republic, a Reuters witness said.
