Masked, Gun-Toting Troops Hit Streets Of Ukraine's Separatist-Held Luhansk

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Masked, Gun-Toting Troops Hit Streets Of Ukraine's Separatist-Held Luhansk
RFE/RL

Armed men in unmarked uniforms took up positions in the center of Luhansk on November 21 in what appeared to be a move in a power struggle among the Russia-backed separatists who control the city in eastern Ukraine.

Local television showed masked, rifle-toting men in camouflage, and the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta said they were blocking administrative buildings in the provincial capital:

Hours later, Luhansk separatist leader Igor Plotnitsky suggested that allies of the police chief he dismissed a day earlier were whipping up tension and had put uniformed men into the streets.

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