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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Fatal conflict raises tensions in eastern Ukraine on Easter Sunday

By William Booth, WashPost, Sunday, April 20, 10:41 AM

SVIATOHIRSK, Ukraine — A truce called by the government to mark the Easter holiday was shredded early Sunday by a gunfight that left at least one dead and three wounded at a checkpoint occupied by pro-Russia militia outside a breakaway city in eastern Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Ministry quickly seized on the clash as evidence that the new Ukraine government could not keep order and was violating an agreement signed last week in Geneva to de-escalate the conflict.

The mayor of Slavyansk, where the clash took place, appeared on a Russian TV news channel after the event to beg President Vladimir Putin to send “peacekeepers” into Ukraine to protect the population.

Leaders of the new Ukraine government fear that Putin is looking for an excuse that would allow him to take more direct action in eastern Ukraine, where many of the citizens speak Russian.

(More here.)

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