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Russia might be on the verge of a humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of pro-Russian Ukrainians flee to Russia out of fear of revolution, Russia’ Federal Border Guard Service said this weekend. 

News agency Itar-Tass cited the Service on Sunday saying that upwards of 675,000 Ukrainians have hightailed it out of the southeastern part of Ukraine between January and February. A three months long political crisis continues to heat up in the country of 45.5 million. Pro-Russian and pro-Western Ukrainians appear to be on the cusp of a revolution that could tear the country apart. 

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