Crimea may only have been the beginning
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian forces on Sunday battled for control of a police compound in eastern Ukraine, with both sides reporting at least one casualty. One Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded, with Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov claiming an "unidentifiable number" of casualties among the separatists.
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