Ukraine rebel leader accuses sacked ally of staging revolt
Igor Plotnitsky, leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), attends a news conference in Donetsk February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/ MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armed men in masks blocked off the center of Ukraine's rebel-controlled city of Luhansk on Wednesday in what the rebel leader said was a revolt by supporters of a sacked regional police chief. In fighting that broke out in 2014, Russian-backed rebels threw off rule by a new pro-Western leadership in Kiev and set up two self-proclaimed separatist statelets in eastern ...
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