RUSSIA'S GUNMEN INVADE UKRAINE'S POLICE HEADQUARTER.

Russian men armed with automatic weapons have taken
control of the police headquarters in the Ukrainian city of
Kramatorsk, 150 km from the Russian border, local officials
and witnesses said.
An organised military unit of over 20 men wearing matching
military fatigues and carrying automatic weapon took over the
building around 1700 GMT after arriving on at least two
buses.

Video footage showed the men taking orders from a
commander and shooting from automatic rifles as they
approached the building.

Ealier a gunbattle erupted after security forces engaged the
men who attacked the station, the interior minister said.
“Unknown men opened fire at the district police station. The
police are firing back. They have been exchanging fire,” Arsen
Avakov said late on Saturday on his Facebook page.
The seizure came hours after armed pro-Russian separatists
raised the Russian flag in the troubled eastern city of
Slovyansk, deepening a stand-off with Moscow which, Kiev
warned, was dragging Europe closer to a “gas war” that could
disrupt supplies across the continent.
At least 20 men armed with pistols and rifles took over the
police and security services headquarters in Slovyansk, about
150km from the border with Russia.
Officials said the men had seized hundreds of pistols from
arsenals in the buildings. The gunmen replaced the Ukrainian
flag on one of the buildings with the red, white and blue
Russian flag.
Speaking shortly after the separatists seized the police
station, Avakov said Ukrainian special forces had been
dispatched to the scene.
“Our response will be very severe,” Avakov wrote on his
Facebook page. “There is zero tolerance for armed terrorists,”
Shortly after, the Ukrainian interior ministry also said the
separatists had taken another security building in the restive
city.