Pro-Russian armed men ride on top of an armoured personnel carrier near the town of Slaviansk
Pro-Russian armed men ride on top of an armoured personnel carrier near the town of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine, May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian forces on Monday, triggering heavy fighting on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was quoted as saying.REUTERS/Baz Ratner (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Relatives mourn 21-year-old nurse Izotova at her funeral in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine
Relatives mourn 21-year-old nurse Yulia Izotova at her funeral in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine May 5, 2014. Witnesses say Izotova was killed by shots from a Ukrainian military column on the road from Slaviansk to Kramatorsk, joining a small but gradually list of dead in a month-old uprising. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
Pro-Russian armed men hold their guns out of a van's window near the town of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine
Pro-Russian armed men hold their guns out of a van's window near the town of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine, May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian forces on Monday, triggering heavy fighting on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was quoted as saying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
Relatives mourn 21-year-old nurse Izotova at her funeral in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine
Relatives mourn 21-year-old nurse Yulia Izotova at her funeral in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine May 5, 2014. Witnesses say Izotova was killed by shots from a Ukrainian military column on the road from Slaviansk to Kramatorsk, joining a small but gradually list of dead in a month-old uprising. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
A woman mourns 21-year-old nurse Izotova at her funeral in Kramatorsk
A woman mourns 21-year-old nurse Yulia Izotova at her funeral in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine May 5, 2014. Witnesses say Izotova was killed by shots from a Ukrainian military column on the road from Slaviansk to Kramatorsk, joining a small but gradually list of dead in a month-old uprising. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
Pro-Russian supporters shout slogans during a rally after a funeral ceremony of Markin, a regional parliament deputy who died in a fire at the trade union building on Friday, in Odessa
Pro-Russian supporters shout slogans during a rally after a funeral ceremony of Vyacheslav Markin, a regional parliament deputy who died in a fire at the trade union building on Friday, in Odessa May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as the country's leaders lamented a police force they said was widely undermined by graft or collaboration with separatists. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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People carry a cross and a coffin containing the body of Markin, a regional parliament deputy who died in a fire at the trade union building on Friday, at his funeral in Odessa
People carry a cross and a coffin containing the body of Vyacheslav Markin, a regional parliament deputy who died in a fire at the trade union building on Friday, at his funeral in Odessa May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as the country's leaders lamented a police force they said was widely undermined by graft or collaboration with separatists. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
A pro-Russian supporter holds a orange ribbon of St. George as she attends a rally after a funeral ceremony of Markin in Odessa
A pro-Russian supporter holds a orange ribbon of St. George, a symbol widely associated with pro-Russian protests in Ukraine, as she attends a rally after a funeral ceremony of Vyacheslav Markin, a regional parliament deputy who died in a fire at the trade union building on Friday, in Odessa May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as the country's leaders lamented a police force they said was widely undermined by graft or collaboration with separatists. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)