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Chief executives of recently self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic will not hold in this Ukrainian region country's presidential elections slated on May 25, co-chairman of the Donetsk people's republic presidium Denis Pushilin told Itar-Tass.

DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 09, 2014 (AFP) - Intense artillery fighting broke out early Sunday in the separatist bastion of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to AFP journalists in the area.

Ukrainian parliament-appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has warned about "tough response actions" against those who have seized a police station in Slavyansk, the Donetsk region.

Pro-Russian activists who seised the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed Monday the creation of a sovereign "people's republic" independent of Kiev rule.

Ukraine's prime minister voiced outrage at reports that masked men in east Ukraine's main city handed out leaflets demanding Jews register or be expelled, NBC News reported Saturday.

MOSCOW, Sept 23, 2014 (AFP) - The prime minister of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk said Tuesday that rebels have removed artillery from frontline areas where Ukraine had also withdrawn, in line with a peace plan signed Saturday.