The pro-Russian administration take the Lugansk

With over 70% of Russian-speaking population according to the 2001 census, it was a matter of time before Lugansk would fall to the pro-Russian activists. At noon on Tuesday activists pro-Russia armed with sticks and shields took the seat of government of the province of just over two million people and which is bordered by three Russian – Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov- shortly after the expiry of one ultimatum to the authorities to free theirfellow detainees. In the evening, gunmen stormed the prosecution, television and, finally, the delegation of the Ministry of Interior. With the wave of occupations yesterday, the rebels seem poised to control the second provincial capital, having taken control of much of the province of Donetsk.

“The assault came peacefully and spontaneously” as thousands of protesters surrounded the building, sources of so-called People’s Army of Donbas, ie, without specific intent to occupy, but using it as a bargaining chip to secure the release of their comrades. ” The seat of government we were not interested at all,” he said shortly after an Internet TV channel Koriaguin Alexei, leader of that army. “The goal of the decision is to negotiate with the authorities,” the release of jailed activists. Cocking that pressure, dozens of militants subsequently occupied the headquarters of the prosecution and the television and the local branch of the Interior Ministry, where a score of armed men broke inside and demanded the resignation of the head of the local police.

Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the People’s Republic of Donetsk was received as a great honor the inclusion of several of its leaders in the new list of sanctions by the European Union. Andrei Purgin, Denis and Sergey Tsyplakov Pushilin, members of the collective leadership of the rebellion, are prohibited from today enter EU territory as responsible for “threatening the integrity and stability of Ukraine”, and will have their assets frozen. The list includes two other activists in the region, one of Lugansk and other so-called Army of the Southeast. While sources of the pro-Russian administration in Donetsk declined any official reaction to punishment, Tsyplakov own, responsible Popular Army, said in a display of pride ” feel tremendously honored to be on the list, and the object of envy by coreligionists have not received such a distinction, “in a statement posted on the Internet. Grown as the rest on the success of the insurrection, the ‘popular’ mayor Slaviansk, Viacheslav Ponomariov, meanwhile warned Brussels that sanctions will only complicate the situation, especially with regard to the release of the seven observers detainees, and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Union.

With the ” popular governor ” Pavel gubarev in jail since early March in a clear attempt to decapitate Kiev protest, occupations that border Lugansk and put new sanctions on the federalist movement increases considerably when less than two weeks to referendum on May 11. Slowly, like pieces on a chess game, small towns have fallen into the hands of ” separatists”, the name that Kiev used to appoint the pro-Russian activists. As of Tuesday, was the exception Lugansk, Donetsk while the moment is a special case: normal is the general trend, marred by anomalies such as the desert aspect from the international airport, where flights arrive almost empty, or the feeling of activity at camera slow to be seen on the streets, just convulsed by a sudden storm. The capital of the ‘ oblast’ (province) of Donetsk, a million inhabitants, seems to have metabolized well the revolt is not strange cross on the tail of a bank or store any of the stationed at the headquarters of the Administration provincial, bracelet visible or relevant identification, activist, around his neck.

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