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Gunshots were heard inside and outside the regional administration headquarters in Kharkiv as pro-Russian activists rushed into the building on Saturday, cheered by a crowd outside and breaching a Maidan cordon, and hoisted a Russian flag and a flag of Kharkiv above the front door.

Some people were injured, according to reports.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported from the scene that the crowd on the square outside the building was crying out, “Kharkiv and Russia.”