DONETSK, Ukraine — Men in the uniforms of Ukraine's now-defunct riot police on Saturday occupied police headquarters in Donetsk, the eastern city that is one of the flashpoints of a wave of pro-Russia protests, hours after armed men seized local police headquarters in Slovyansk, a city about 90 kilometers (55 miles) away.
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Associated Press: Uniformed men occupy Donetsk police headquarters
Activists rally outside the regional police headquarters building seized by pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 12, 2014. The coordinated attacks and a subsequent raid by a few hundred pro-Russian protesters on the police headquarters of the local capital Donetsk underscored the volatility of the crisis ahead of peace talks between EU and US diplomats and their Moscow and Kiev counterparts in Geneva on Thursday. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
