Pro-Russian Separatists Seize Television Center In Eastern Ukraine

Pro-Russian Separatists Seize TV Center
A pro-Russian activist stands at a barricade outside the police regional building seized by the separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 29, 2014. The European Union's new list of people targeted by sanctions over Ukraine includes Russia's army chief of staff and military intelligence boss as well as Ukraine separatists. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)
A pro-Russian activist stands at a barricade outside the police regional building seized by the separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 29, 2014. The European Union's new list of people targeted by sanctions over Ukraine includes Russia's army chief of staff and military intelligence boss as well as Ukraine separatists. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)

LUHANSK, Ukraine, April 29 (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists took control of the regional prosecutor's office and television centre in the eastern city of Luhansk on Tuesday, having earlier seized the government headquarters, a Reuters photographer said.

The photographer saw separatists inside the prosecutor's office and gunmen guarding the entrance of the television centre. The gunmen said they were in control of the building and Interfax news agency said protesters had burned the Ukrainian flag. (Reporting by Vasily Fedosenko; Writing by Matt Robinson)

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