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 Pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine were last night holding a group of European military observers in the city of Sloviansk claiming they had been travelling with a "spy" for the Kyiv government. The group was operating under the mandate of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and comprised four Germans, a Pole, a Dane, a Swede and a Czech officer. According to the Ukrainian interior ministry, they were being escorted by five members of the Ukrainian armed forces when their bus was seized by separatists. The ministry said it believed they were being held in the state security service (SBU) building in Sloviansk, which is being occupied by separatists led by a militant leader, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, who has declared himself the city's "mayor".

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