08/04/2014 15:08
Ukraine crisis: Ukraine in bid to retake buildings
The Ukraine authorities say they have seized back control of the regional administration building in the eastern city of Kharkiv from pro-Russia separatists, the BBC reported.
They say they hope buildings in Luhansk and Donetsk will be freed shortly as well.
On Monday, pro-Russia demonstrators seized government buildings in the three cities.
Moscow has thousands of troops massed along its border with eastern Ukraine.
Although it insists it has no intention of invading Ukraine, it says it reserves the right to defend ethnic Russians in the country.
Ukraine Deputy Foreign Minister Danylo Lubkivsky has told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the situation in eastern Ukraine was "under control but remains dangerous.”
Interim President Oleksandr Turchynov says several Ukrainian policemen have been injured in the operation to free the Kharkiv regional state administration.
Some 70 people were held without shots being fired, Ukraine's interior ministry said in a statement.