Kharkiv, Ukraine - As fighting continues to escalate in east Ukraine, a pro-Russian separatist group calling itself the "Kharkiv Partisans" declared that it would execute five Ukrainian civilians for every Communist monument destroyed, underscoring worries that a recent law banning Soviet symbols might escalate tensions in the war-torn country.
Newsweek: Death threats for destroying Soviet symbols
Worker cleans the base of a smashed Soviet-era memorial for Sergo Ordzhonikidze in Kharkiv on April 11, 2015.
