Senior Ukrainian officials on Saturday held a second session of national round-table talks aimed at ending the country’s political crisis, this time in the eastern city of Kharkiv, in the region that has been besieged by pro-Russian separatist violence.
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New York Times: Talks in east aim to ease tensions in Ukraine
Ukrainian army soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint on the road near the eastern city of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, on May 16, 2014. The United Nations warned on May 16 of an \"alarming deterioration\" of human rights in eastern Ukraine, where an armed insurgency by pro-Russian separatists is threatening a presidential election just over a week away. In a new report, the UN's rights chief catalogued a litany of \"targeted killings, torture and beatings, abductions, intimidation and some cases of sexual harassment\" which it said was carried out by anti-government groups .
