As pro-Russia crowds stormed government buildings across eastern Ukraine April 6, two men approached a makeshift military base in the small town of Olexeyevka, less than half a mile from the Ukraine-Russia border, and began to menace the soldiers inside. “We will kill you if you don’t leave this place,” they said. The base belonged to a contingent of Ukrainian border guards who had built it only the previous month, hauling Soviet-era tents out of storage and cleaning out old debris from what had been a storage lot.
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Pro-Russian activists guard the entrance to the seized SBU building in Luhansk on April 11.
