Fresh violence erupted in eastern Ukraine Tuesday as thousands of pro-Russian protesters stormed key buildings, escalating the crisis after Moscow hit back at "Iron Curtain"-style Western sanctions.
A mob
spearheaded by around 30 men carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and
grenade-launchers attacked the regional police headquarters in Lugansk,
raising the heat in the worst East-West confrontation since the Cold
War.
They had earlier seized
the regional prosecutors' office, tearing down the Ukrainian flag and
replacing it with that of Russia, which the West blames for stoking the
violence in the ex-Soviet Republic.
More
than a dozen towns and cities in the east have now fallen to
pro-Russian rebels, who see the Western-backed leaders in Kiev as
illegitimate "fascists" and want either independence or outright
accession to Russia.
"It's
good what the young people are doing. We don't want this Nazi junta that
has seized power in Kiev. We don't recognise them. I want my children
and grand-children to grow up in Russia," one retired engineer told AFP
as he surveyed the violence in Lugansk.
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