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 A mob of pro-Russians taunted 'crawl to your Europe' as they forced opponents to their knees and spat at them during escalating tensions in Ukraine. The scene in the country's second-largest city of Kharkiv yesterday came as gunmen stormed public buildings and a Ukrainian serviceman was shot dead by a Russian soldier in a 'drunken argument'.

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