Massive actions pass in 9 cities of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region over past day

Massive events passed in such eastern Ukrainian cities as Donetsk, Mariupol, Slavyansk, Kirovskoye, Yenakievo, Amvrosievka, Artemovsk, Makeevka and Khartsyzsk over the past day, the press service of the Donetsk regional police department reported on Monday, noting that the number of demonstrators reached around three thousand people and 200 policemen were ensuring public order.

“The following situation has emerged in Donetsk region, as demonstrators in the city of Donetsk continue to keep the regional state authority building under control and an administrative building of the city executive committee is seized in the city of Mariupol. Police stations in regional cities of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk are captured. A police department building is captured in the city of Gorlovka today, the same attempts at capture were also reported at the police department building in Yenakievo. Other regional police units work in routine mode,” the regional police department stated.