Ukraine Formally Ends It's Truce With Pro-Russian Rebels

Ukrainian President Oleksander Turchynov visits a training base of the National Guard near Kiev. Mykhailo Markiv / Reuters

Ukraine Vows To 'Liquidate' Pro-Russian Rebels After Body Of 'Brutally Tortured' Politician Is Found In River -- Daily Mail

* Ukraine ends Easter truce after two bodies found near town of Slaviansk
* One was Vladimir Rybak, a member of president's Batkivshchyna party
* President said councillor in town of Horlivka was abducted by 'terrorists'
* He and another man tortured and dumped in river to drown, say police
* U.S. journalist for Vice News captured by Pro-Russia militia in Slaviansk
* Former Moscow foreign minister warns Ukraine is 'powder keg' which will explode with 'catastrophic consequences'
* U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Russia must act to defuse the unrest
* Pentagon sends 600 troops to Poland and three Baltic states for exercises

Ukraine today ended its Easter truce and vowed to 'liquidate' pro-Russian armed rebels which have grabbed control of key buildings across the east of the country.

Kiev plans to renew its 'anti-terrorist operation' which began last week without scoring any major successes in dislodging the separatists.

'Security agencies are working to liquidate all the groups currently operating in Kramatorsk, Slaviansk and the other towns in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,' said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema today.

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