People's governor of Ukraine's Lugansk declares state of emergency, orders full mobilization
3 May 2014, 16:26 -- People's Governor of the Lugansk region Valery Bolotov has declared a state of emergency and called for complete mobilization in the region, a pro-federalization activist told RIA Novosti Saturday.
I declare a state of emergency in the Lugansk region. I announce, first, full mobilization of male population, a curfew from 11 pm to 6 am is imposed in the Lugansk region, Bolotov's address reads.
One of the senior officers of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine told RIA Novosti earlier today that newly appointed Lugansk Police Chief Anatoliy Naumenko had offered his subordinates to evacuate their families from the city, in the face of the alleged assault with armored vehicles and artillery. Meanwhile, federalization supporters in Lugansk said that they have no information about any impending assault, but noted that they are 'getting ready for any eventuality Earlier on Saturday commissar of the Eastern
Front movement Nikolai Solntsev said that the Donetsk region, targeted by a large-scale military operation involving aviation and armored vehicles, had ordered mobilization and was forming people's resistance movement Ukrainian military forces launched early Friday a full-scale assault on the eastern city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region, the focal point of pro-federalization rallies. Casualties were reported.
Moscow condemned the recent outbreak of violence in the country and called the military operation initiated by Kiev authorities a punitive action which destroyed the last hope for the Geneva accords.
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