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A gunbattle has erupted in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk after security forces engaged armed men who attacked a police station, the interior minister has said. "Unknown men opened fire at the district police station. The police are firing back. They have been exchanging fire," Arsen Avakov said late on Saturday on his Facebook page.

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