Ukraine Crisis: What Is Happening Where? -- BBC
With pro-Russia forces occupying buildings in cities across eastern Ukraine, and the central government threatening to retake control by force, tension is building in the region. This is a round-up of the key cities affected.
Sloviansk
Tensions are at their highest in Sloviansk, in Donetsk region, where armed men seized a police station and other government buildings on 12 April and have since declared themselves to be part of a new "Donetsk People's Republic". Pro-Russian militia completely surrounded the town with checkpoints and there have been fatal clashes. It is, like many cities in the east, a mainly industrial town, and has a population of around 115,000. It is 100km (60 miles) from Donetsk and just 15km (9 miles) from Kramatorsk, which has also seen buildings seized by armed men of military-style appearance and organisation.
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My Comment: I have spent the past few hours talking with family and friends that I know in Ukraine, as well as watching and reading Ukrainian and Russian social media. Suffice it to say that it has been a chaotic day in much of eastern Ukraine today. From the information that I am getting .... it looks like the Ukraine military targeted and seized the sites that were easy to retake .... sustaining casualties but not as high as some were expecting. The true test will happen when these Ukrainian soldiers start to go into the the major cities and do battle with barricaded pro-Russian militants .... if that happens .... expect the bloodshed numbers to go sky-high.
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