Participants in a pro-Russia rally have seized the building of the regional state administration in Donetsk

By Ralph Turchiano on March 3, 2014

(14:04, Monday, March 3, 2014).

EEV Excerpt: “Taruta, whose fortune is estimated at $730 million, was said by his close circle to realize that he has agreed to a “suicide mission” by agreeing to govern Donetsk, Ukraine’s most populous oblast with nearly 10 percent of the nation’s population of 45 million people.”

*This appointment will most likely not happen now, as Ukraine is about to lose another province

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People began gathering outside the administration building in the morning, as the regional council was holding an extraordinary session to elect a new chairman.

The secret ballot results incurred displeasure in the demonstrators, who were demanding to appoint Donbass People’s Self-Defence leader Pavlo Hubarev.

After that the activists began storming the building.

The demonstrators broke the metal fence, used it as a ladder, and penetrated the administration building through a smashed window.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Donetsk Regional Council has dismissed Andrii Fedoruk from the post of chairman of the Regional Council and appointed ex-Governor Andrii Shyshatskyi instead.

Some 10,000 anti-government protesters on March 1 in Lenina Square in Donetsk pronounced no-confidence in Shyshatskyi and elected Hubarev instead.

http://un.ua/eng/article/495821.html