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May 30, 2014 01:32 am GMT

Ukraine's Rebels Are in a Power Struggle Against Each Other

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Two pro-Russian groups were in a standoff against each other in an apparent power struggle in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, igniting rumors that there may have been a small coup within the separatist movement

As a thunderstorm ominously rolled in through the city of Donetsk, Vostok Battalion, a pro-Russian group that has fought the Ukrainian military alongside other separatists for weeks, surrounded a regional government building that serves as the headquarters for the pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic. (DPR is what pro-Russian separatists gave call their self-proclaimed state)

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