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The head of the Luhansk regional state administration, Mykhailo Bolotskykh, has said that the actions of separatists, who have seized the building of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Luhansk office, is posing a threat to public safety in the region.

“I support the Kyiv government’s proposal of a local government
reform and power decentralization,” he said at a public forum in the
Luhansk region on Thursday.

“You should not listen to the demands of those who are speaking out
from protest positions. But today these are no longer peaceful
demonstrations but threats to the safety of the Luhansk people,”
Bolotskykh said.

The authorities have so far been able to maintain vital services in
the region, but the unstable situation is preventing its development, he
said.

On April 6, supporters of Ukrainian federalization occupied the SBU
building in Luhansk and demanded independence for the Luhansk region
from the Kyiv authorities and the release of all arrested pro-Russian
activists.