Shots Fired As Kiev Fights To Take Back Police Buildings Occupied By Russian Militia

Pro-Russian separatists moved to take over a police station in the eastern city of Slaviansk, and Kiev, which regards this as an aggressive act by Moscow, reports dead on both sides.

Ukraine faces a rash of rebellions in the east which it says are inspired and directed by the Kremlin. But action to dislodge the armed militants risks tipping the stand-off into a new, dangerous phase as Moscow has warned it will protect the region’s Russian-speakers if they come under attack.

One Ukrainian state security officer was killed and five wounded on the government side in what interior minister Arsen Avakov called Sunday’s “anti-terrorist” operation.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.