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| Ukraine crisis: President calls snap vote amid fighting | |
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| Ukraine's president has dissolved parliament and called snap elections, as government forces continue to fight pro-Russian rebel forces in the east. | |
| Petro Poroshenko said many current MPs were backers of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and that the majority of Ukrainians wanted a new parliament. | |
| Elections would be held on 26 October, he said in a TV address. | |
| Separately, Ukraine's military says it clashed with rebel armoured vehicles that entered the country from Russia. | |
| It said a column of 10 tanks and two armoured personnel carriers was heading towards the south-eastern port of Mariupol but was stopped. Two tanks were reportedly destroyed. | |
| More than 2,000 people have died in months of fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. | |
| The two regions declared independence from Kiev, following Russia's annexation of the southern Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March. | |
| Ukraine accuses Russia of arming the rebels in the east and sending its troops into the country - a charge the Kremlin denies. | |
| On Tuesday, Mr Poroshenko is expected to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at talks in Minsk Belarus. |