Ukrainian forces engaged in a deadly gun battle with unknown armed men in the country’s eastern region on Sunday, prompting a senior US diplomat to accuse Moscow of staging another Crimea-style intervention. Samantha Power, the United States' ambassador to the United Nations, said the unrest in eastern Ukraine was following the same pattern of events in Crimea, where unidentified forces took over government installations before the peninsula was effectively annexed by Russia last month.
The Guardian: UN ambassador says Ukraine unrest has ‘tell-tale signs of Moscow’s involvement’
Activists rally near seized governmental building in eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
