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Pro-Kremlin demonstrators seized administration buildings in Ukraine's east and called for the regions to join Russia as the government in Kiev accused President Vladimir Putin of stoking separatist unrest.Russian forces shot a Ukrainian military officer to death in Crimea, according to the Kiev-based Defense Ministry, after protesters with Russian flags stormed administration offices in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk and called for a boycott of Ukraine's May 25 presidential election. A group temporarily seized offices in Kharkiv before the building was freed. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Russia's government was trying to split up Ukraine.
"The aim of this scenario is to divide Ukraine into parts and to turn part of Ukraine into a territory of slavery under a Russian dictatorship," Yatsenyuk said today in televised remarks in Kiev. "It's crystal clear that an anti-Ukrainian plan is under way, a plan to destabilize the situation, a plan so that foreign troops cross the border."
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