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The leader of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine has issued a bizarre appeal for British help via UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Denis Pushilin, head of the self-declared 'Donetsk people's republic', sent his plea as Ukrainian forces arrived to crush an uprising against the country's new, pro-EU government

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