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 Pro-Russia demonstrators on April 14 defied a government deadline to vacate occupied buildings in exchange for amnesty, as Ukraine's president threatened a military crackdown. Dozens of protesters smashed windows of the police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka and scuffled with police as they took control of the facility.

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