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Two Russian-backed insurgents were killed in an Election Day shootout with soldiers from Ukraine’s anti-terrorist operation, who chased them for raiding polling stations and stealing voting bulletins in Novoaidar -- a Luhansk Oblast town of 9,000 people -- nearby villages. [more]

There were more law enforcement officers than election officials when the district election commission in Svatovo of Luhansk Oblast opened its meeting at about 8 p.m. on May 25. [more]

Just one day before Ukraine holds a crucial presidential election, confusion and a looming specter of violence are dissuading voters from going to the polls in the country's restive east. [more]

Yuriy Tkachenko, his wife Iryna and several women in the neighborhood got fed up watching masked men with Kalashnikovs drive in and out of a mostly abandoned brick factory in front of their houses in Kramatorsk, a northern Donetsk Oblast city under control of Kremlin-backed separatists for more than a month. [more]

The May 22 murders of 18 Ukrainian soldiers near Olhinka in Donetsk Oblast served as tragic reminders to the world that Ukraine is locked in a bloody war with Kremlin-backed separatists. [more]

On May 12, the day after the staging of an unrecognized and farcical referendum in many cities of Luhansk Oblast, the Kremlin-backed organizers announced the region's independence from Kyiv. [more]