Ukraine's acting president has pledged "anti-terrorist measures" as the government declared the actions of pro-Russian protesters in the country's east a "second stage" of special operations by Russia to break up the state.
In a televised appeal on Monday, Oleksander Turchinov said that the action in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk showed that Russia was "playing out the Crimean scenario" - a reference to the Russian takeover of the peninsula and its annexation.
Late on Monday, the Russian foreign ministry issued said the Ukraine government should stop blaming Russia for its problems.
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