PHOTOS: Bloody clash in the Ukraine
April 13, 2014
Pro-Russian protesters burn tires as they prepare for battle with the Berkut (Ukrainian special police forces) on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine's interior minister said on April 13 that both sides had suffered casualties during a raid launched by Ukrainian special forces on a police station in the eastern city of Slavyansk that was seized by pro-Russian gunmen. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOVSERGEY BOBOK/AFP/Getty Images ( 528929719 )
Demonstrators wave Ukrainian national flags during a pro-Ukraine rally in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, Ukraine, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Ukraine is launching a "large-scale anti-terrorist operation" to resist attacks of armed pro-Russian forces, Ukraine's President Oleksandr Turchynov said on Sunday in a televised address.(AP Photo/Igor Golovniov) ( Ukraine )
Pro-Russian activists escort a man (unseen) who they say is a provocateur outside the secret service building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine's interior minister said on April 13 that both sides had suffered casualties during a raid launched by Ukrainian special forces on a police station in the eastern city of Slavyansk that was seized by pro-Russian gunmen. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF ( 528932639 )
A Ukrainian police officer is stops a pro-Russian activist who is charging to beat the Ukrainian protester lying on the steps in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Two rival rallies in Kharkiv turned violent after a group of pro-Russian protesters followed several pro-Ukrainian activists, beating them with baseball bats and sticks. (AP Photo/ Olga Ivashchenko) ( Ukraine )
Pro-Russia activists walk near a barricade outside a regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV ( 528928283 )
Armed pro-Russia protesters prepare for the battle with Ukrainian police special team on the outskirts the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV ( 528932627 )
Armed pro-Russia protesters prepare for battle with the Ukrainian police special team on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV ( 528928871 )
Pro-Kremlin supporters stand near their cars after a shooting between pro-Russian protesters and Ukrainian police special team on a road in the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. At least two people were killed and nine wounded on Sunday in gun battles between Ukrainian special forces and pro-Kremlin militias that threatened to scuttle the first international talks on the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. The clashes across the ex-Soviet state's separatist eastern rust belt broke out a day after masked gunmen stormed a series of police and security service buildings in coordinated raids that Kiev blamed on the "provocative activities of Russian special services". AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV ( 528933591 )
A photographer taking a picture of a car that was shot in a firefight outside the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in eastern city of Slovyansk Sunday, killing one security officer and wounding five others, the interior minister said (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT This is an image taken from video of an unidentified gunman killed in a firefight outside the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk on Sunday, April 13, 2014. An Associated Press reporter found a bullet-ridden SUV on the side of the road and a pool of blood on the passenger seat where the gunbattle was supposed to have taken place. Vladimir Kolodchenko, a lawmaker from the area who witnessed the attack, said a car with four gunmen pulled up on the road in a wooden area outside Slovyansk and open fire on Ukrainian soldiers who were standing beside their vehicles. Both attackers and the Ukrainian servicemen left soon after the shooting. (AP Photo/ Vladimir Kolodchenko) ( Ukraine )
A pro-Russian protester burns tires in prepararation for battle with the Berkut (Ukrainian special police forces) on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on April 13 launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV ( 528930040 )
A pro-Russian activist wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and holding a bat guards a barricade outside the regional government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 13, 2014. Kiev said on April 13 that several had been left "dead and wounded" in fighting to oust pro-Russian gunmen holed up in a police station in the restive east in the city of Slavyansk, as Washington warned Moscow to de-escalate the crisis or face the consequences. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY ( 528930244 )
A pro-Russian activist, holding a wooden club and a shield, guards a barricade outside a regional police building seized by the armed separatists to prevent storming by the Ukrainian police special team in the eastern city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine today launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. "Units from all of the country's force structures are participating. May God be with us," the minister wrote on his Facebook page. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV ( 528927612 )
A pro-Russian gunman stands guard at a seized police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in the eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported gunbattle in east Ukraine, where armed pro-Russia men have seized a number of law enforcement buildings in recent days. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
A Pro-Russian activist holds a Soviet Union flag outside the headquarters of Ukraine's security agency in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine's interior minister said on April 13 that both sides had suffered casualties during a raid launched by Ukrainian special forces on a police station in the eastern city of Slavyansk that was seized by pro-Russian gunmen. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF ( 528930800 )
A pro-Russian gunman stands guard at a seized police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in the eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported gunbattle in east Ukraine, where armed pro-Russia men have seized a number of law enforcement buildings in recent days. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Pro-Russian activists gather at a seized police station with a banner reading "Donetsk Republic" in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in the eastern city Sunday, according to the interior minister, who said one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. It was the first reported gunbattle in east Ukraine, where armed pro-Russia men have seized a number of law enforcement buildings in recent days. .(AP Photo/Andrew Chernavsky) ( Ukraine )
Female Pro-Russian protesters stand at a barricade outside a regional police building seized by the armed separatists to prevent storming by Ukrainian police special team in the eastern city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV ( 528927166 )
Pro-Russia protesters guard a barricade outside a regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV ( 528932624 )
Ukrainian policemen try to stop pro-Russian protesters from storming the regional government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on April 13, 2014. Ukraine's acting president accused Russia of waging war in his country's eastern belt as fresh clashes left at least two dead and led the United Nations Security Council to announce emergency talks late on April 13. The heavily Russified region has been riven by unrest since pro-Western leaders rose to power in February on the back of bloody protests against the old regime's decision to reject an EU alliance and turn towards Moscow. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEY BOBOK ( 528944531 )
Pro-Russia activists prepare Molotov cocktails as they guard a barricade outside a regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV ( 528928249 )
People watch arned men near a regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV ( 528928572 )
A pro-Russia protester guards outside a regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV ( 528927670 )
Armed pro-Russian protesters guard the regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014. Kiev said on April 13 that several had been left "dead and wounded" in fighting to oust pro-Russian gunmen holed up in a police station in the restive eastern city of Slavyansk, as Washington warned Moscow to de-escalate the crisis or face the consequences. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV ( 528930440 )
A woman crosses herself as she watches armed pro-Russian supporters carrying an Eastern Orthodox icon of Mary Magdalene outside the secret service building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on April 13, 2014. Ukraine's interior minister said on April 13 that both sides had suffered casualties during a raid launched by Ukrainian special forces on a police station in the eastern city of Slavyansk that was seized by pro-Russian gunmen. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF ( 528929939 )
Andrei Zubov, a history professor who was fired from one of Moscow's most prestigious universities last month after criticizing Russia's military intervention in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, speaks to the crowd during a rally against pro-Putin's media in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Zubov argued against the annexation of Crimea by comparing it with Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II. More than 10,000 people have turned out in Moscow for an anti-Kremlin rally to denounce Russian state televisionís news coverage, particularly of the crisis in neighboring Ukraine.(AP Photo/Denis Strelkov) ( Russia Protest )
Demonstrators hold a Georgian national flag and a poster reading "Stop Moscow" during a rally in support of United Ukraine in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, April 13, 2014. The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power told ABC's "This Week" programe on Sunday that recent violence in Ukraine "bears the tell-tale signs of Moscow's involvement" and went on to say "It's professional, it's coordinated. There's nothing grassroots seeming about it". (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov) ( Georgia Ukraine )
Members of the pro-Russian self defense forces carry Crimea's flag during a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the peninsula's capital Simferopol liberation from Nazi Germany troops during the World War II in Simferopol on April 13, 2014. Crimea's largely Russian-speaking residents voted in March to become part of Russia, in a hastily organised referendum held as Russian troops patrolled the region. AFP PHOTO/ YURIY LASHOV ( 528930858 )
Members of pro-Russian self defense forces lay flowers at a World War II memorial in Simferopol on April 13, 2014, during in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the peninsula's capital Simferopol liberation from Nazi Germany troops in 1944. Crimea's largely Russian-speaking residents voted in March to become part of Russia, in a hastily organised referendum held as Russian troops patrolled the region. AFP PHOTO/ YURIY LASHOV ( 528931831 )
A member of pro-Russian self defense forces shows his medal "For the Defence of Crimea" recently established by the local authorities in Simferopol on April 13, 2014, during in a ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the peninsula's capital Simferopol liberation from Nazi Germany troops during the World War II. Crimea's largely Russian-speaking residents voted in March to become part of Russia, in a hastily organised referendum held as Russian troops patrolled the region. AFP PHOTO/ YURIY LASHOV ( 528931788 )
A WWII veteran toasts during a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Simferopol, Crimea, Sunday, April 13, 2014. On Sunday, residents of Simferopol mark the 70th anniversary of liberation of Simferopol from German troops during World War II. (AP Photo/ Andrew Lubimov) ( Crimea )
Members of the Crimean self defense forces attend a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Simferopol, Crimea, Sunday, April 13, 2014. On Sunday, residents of Simferopol mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Simferopol from German troops during World War II. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov) ( Crimea )
A WWII veteran sits at a table during a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Simferopol, Crimea, Sunday, April 13, 2014. On Sunday, residents of Simferopol mark the 70th anniversary of liberation of Simferopol from German troops during World War II. (AP Photo/ Andrew Lubimov) ( APTOPIX Crimea )
Mark Lyall Grant, the United Kingdomís ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during an U.N. Security Council emergency meeting called at Russia's request to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine, Sunday, April 13, 2014, at United Nations headquarters. The meeting comes as the new Ukrainian government declared it would deploy armed forces to quash an increasingly bold pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern region. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ( United Nations Ukraine )
Vitaly Churkin, the Russian Federationís ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during an U.N. Security Council emergency meeting called at Russia's request to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine, Sunday, April 13, 2014, at United Nations headquarters. The meeting comes as the new Ukrainian government declared it would deploy armed forces to quash an increasingly bold pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern region. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ( UN Ukraine )
Ukrainian policemen try to stop pro-Russian protesters from storming the regional government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on April 13, 2014. Ukraine's acting president accused Russia of waging war in his country's eastern belt as fresh clashes left at least two dead and led the United Nations Security Council to announce emergency talks late on April 13. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEY BOBOK/AFP/Getty Images ( 528965310 )
A pro-Russia protester lights a molotov cocktail during the storming of the regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967224 )
Pro-Russia militiamen detain the head of the regional police after storming the regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOVALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967400 )
Pro-Russia activists throw stones as they storm the regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967271 )
Ukrainian police try to stop pro-Russia activists from storming the regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967241 )
A pro-Russian protester takes part in the storming of regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967101 )
A pro-Russia protester breaks a window of a regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. A few hundred pro-Russia activists seized the building after an hour-long storming. Ukraine's interim president on April 14 made a dramatic about-face aimed at defusing tensions in the separatist east by backing a national referendum on turning the ex-Soviet republic into a federation with broader regional rights. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967200 )
A pro-Russian militiaman gestures and holds a stick as he guards a barricade bearing the Russian flag on the road leading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528966092 )
Pro-Russian protesters guard a barricade outside the regional state building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY/AFP/Getty Images ( 528966326 )
A Pro-Russia activist sits on a barricade outside the secret service building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images ( 528966072 )
A pro-Russian militiaman guards a barricade in front of the flag of so called Donetsk Republic outside a regional police building in eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ANATOLIY STEPANOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528965835 )
A woman speaks to armed men in military fatigues standing guard outside a regional administration building they seized in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528965441 )
A masked pro-Russia activists looks on during a pro-Russia rally outside the regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY/AFP/Getty Images ( 528969189 )
Armed men in military fatigues stand guard outside a regional administration building they seized in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528965402 )
Pro-Russia protesters throw stones as they storm a regional police building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014. A few hundred pro-Russia activists seized the building after an hour-long storming. U AFP PHOTO/ ALEXEY KRAVTSOV/AFP/Getty Images ( 528967198 )
A pro-Russian man places a Russian flag over a police station during its mass storming in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka on Monday, April 14, 2014. The text reads: Ukrainian police station in Horlivka". Several government buildings has fallen to mobs of Moscow loyalists in recent days as unrest spreads across the east of the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Pro-Russian men attack a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka Monday, April 14, 2014. Several government buildings have fallen to mobs of Moscow loyalists in recent days as unrest spreads across the east of the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Masked pro-Russian men attack British photojournalist Frederick Paxton during the mass storming of a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Pro-Russian men attack a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka Monday, April 14, 2014. Several government buildings have fallen to mobs of Moscow loyalists in recent days as unrest spreads across the east of the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Masked pro-Russian men attack British photojournalist Frederick Paxton, 2nd right, during the mass storming of a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Protesters hold placards depicting acting Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov with sign reading "Avakov - whose side are you on? Either stop separatists or get out!" during their protest action at the ministry in Kiev on April 14, 2014. Protesters demand to a stop to the inactivity of the Interior ministry and the Security Service in the eastern part of Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images ( 528965151 )
Pro-Russian men throw stones during the mass storming of a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
The head of the local police station Herman Pristupa, brandishes firearms at the entrance to a police headquarters stormed by pro-Russian activists in Horlivka, Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
Pro-Russian men storm a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka on Monday, April 14, 2014. Several government buildings have fallen to mobs of Moscow loyalists in recent days as unrest spreads across the east of the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
A Ukrainian police officer receives medical care after being attacked by a pro-Russian mob that stormed a police station in Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. A pro-Russian mob on Monday seized a police building in yet another city in Russian-leaning eastern Ukraine, defying government warnings that it was preparing to act against the insurgents. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( APTOPIX Ukraine )
A pro-Russian wearing a gas mask storms a police station in Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov on Monday called for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping troops in the east of the country, where pro-Russian insurgents have occupied buildings in nearly 10 cities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) ( Ukraine )
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