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| Ukraine crisis: Flights halted at Donetsk airport | Ukraine crisis: Flights halted at Donetsk airport |
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| Flights have been suspended at the airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk following an intervention by armed separatists, officials said. | Flights have been suspended at the airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk following an intervention by armed separatists, officials said. |
| Several dozen men had arrived in the early hours and demanded Ukrainian troops withdraw from the airport, they said. | Several dozen men had arrived in the early hours and demanded Ukrainian troops withdraw from the airport, they said. |
| The incident came as Ukraine awaited results from its presidential election. | The incident came as Ukraine awaited results from its presidential election. |
| Confectionery magnate Petro Poroshenko looks set to win without a run-off and has vowed to "bring peace". | Confectionery magnate Petro Poroshenko looks set to win without a run-off and has vowed to "bring peace". |
| Flights were temporarily suspended at Sergei Prokofiev airport after the separatists, reported to be members of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, demanded Ukrainian troops guarding the inner perimeter of the airport be removed. | |
| Officials said there had been "shots and confrontation". | |
| The head of Donetsk airport's press service, Dmitry Kosinov, said: "On the territory of the airport there are armed people, this is ample reason to halt our work on security grounds." | |
| Poll disruption | |
| Mr Poroshenko, 48, has already claimed victory in the election based on exit polls. | |
| Final results are expected on Monday. | |
| He vowed to "put an end to war, chaos, crime, and bring peace to the Ukrainian land". | |
| The election came three months after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev amid bloody street protests and calls for closer ties with the EU. | |
| Since then, Russia has annexed the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine and armed separatists in the eastern Donbass provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk have declared independence from Kiev. | |
| Ukraine's interim government is engaged in an offensive in the east to quash the uprising that has left scores dead. | |
| Pro-Russian separatists severely disrupted voting there. No polling stations were open in Donetsk city, and across the region only seven out of 12 district electoral commissions were operating. | |
| However, the central elections commission said about 60% of Ukraine's 35.5 million eligible voters had turned out. | |
| Are you in Donetsk? Have you been affected by the suspension of flights? If you are happy to speak to the BBC you can email your experiences to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk, using the subject line 'Donetsk'. | |
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