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 An uneasy calm reigns in Horlivka, hours after gun-touting separatists stormed a local City Hall building. Aside from the gutted-out police headquarters, seized two days ago amid violent clashes, nothing really seems amiss in this sleepy industrial town in eastern Ukraine. But the apparent quietude belies a deep rift between locals supporting the takeover of Horlivka, the latest city in eastern Ukraine to fall under the control of pro-Russian militants, and those loyal to authorities in Kyiv.

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