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 Men in camouflage, armed with machine guns, have been seen at the entrance to the town of Slovyansk, Donetsk region, where armed men seized the building of the local police department early on April 12, the OstroV online newspaper has reported.

 “They set up a checkpoint and barricaded it with tires. They are currently not letting a police bus into the town,” reads the statement.

Local media reported that camouflage and weapons of these people are very similar to camouflage and weapons of “little green men” – armed men without insignia who took over Crimea.