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Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk deploy a flag of the so-called Donetsk Republic and hold a Russian flag on April 7, 2014, in Donetsk. They proclaimed on April 7 the creation of a sovereign “people’s republic” independent of Kiev’s rule. Ukraine’s embattled Prime Minister on April 7 accused Russia of trying to “dismember” his country by plotting seizures of government buildings in eastern regions that are seeking to break away from Kiev. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY