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Ukraine 'bid to take back Sloviansk police HQ' Ukraine 'bid to take back Sloviansk police HQ'
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Ukrainian forces have launched an operation against pro-Russian activists who seized a police station on Saturday, the interior minister says.Ukrainian forces have launched an operation against pro-Russian activists who seized a police station on Saturday, the interior minister says.
More to follow. Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page that "all security units" were involved in an "anti-terror operation" in the eastern city of Sloviansk.
Russia warned earlier that any use of force in eastern Ukraine could scupper crisis talks due later this week.
The US accuses Moscow of inciting the trouble. The Kremlin denies the charge.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Kiev government was "demonstrating its inability to take responsibility for the fate of the country".
Four-party talks involving Ukraine, Russia, the US and the EU are due to start in Geneva on Thursday.
Busloads of armed men
On Saturday, armed men took over police stations and official buildings in Sloviansk and two other eastern towns - Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka.
Similar reports emerged from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk of armed men dressed in camouflage arriving in buses and storming the police stations.
Pro-Russian demonstrators also continued their occupation of the main administrative building in the regional capital Donetsk, which they have held for one week.
A protest leader told the BBC that the activists in Sloviansk took action to support the Donetsk sit-in.
Eastern Ukraine has a large Russian-speaking population and has seen a series of protests since the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.