An Ukrainian soldier stays close to armoured personnel carriers (APC) near Izium on April 15, 2014. Ukraine's acting president accused Russia on April 15 of harbouring \"brutal plans\" to destabilise the southeast of his ex-Soviet country by backing separatist militants. \"Russia had and continues to have brutal plans,\" Oleksandr Turchynov told a session of parliament. \"They want to set fire not only to the Donetsk region but to the entire south and east -- from Kharkiv to the Odessa region.\" AFP PHOTO/ANATOLIY STEPANOV
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MOSCOW — The Facebook post on Tuesday morning by Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia was bleak and full of dread.
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