Deadly Ukraine gunbattle threatens fragile Easter truce

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GrahamWPhillips ‏@GrahamWP_UK 2h

Pretty extreme scenes out here, reports of up to 5 killed outside #Sloviansk.


GrahamWPhillips ‏@GrahamWP_UK 2h

Bullets littering the ground as anti-Kiev activists say they were victims of a 'military style attack'. #Sloviansk


Mood here, some 6km outside #Sloviansk - shock, sadness. Working to find identities of those killed.


New video - here's by the scene of shooting out at #Sloviansk - #Ukraine #Russia

Number plates of 2 destroyed cars (reported convoy of 4 originally) displayed - Ukrainian


Now 'self-defence' with guns here, but sitting as seem to be in state of shock at this 'Easter massacre' as one says.


If these death reports are confirmed, this marks the bloodiest escalation of violence yet here in the east of Ukraine


Here filming for @RT_com holding bullets - they are all over the ground here, along with bloodstains. #Sloviansk


New video - a walk right through scene of #Sloviansk shooting - #Ukraine #Russia

1/2 Reports from ground here in #Sloviansk - 4 cars approached at 1am, opened fire on unarmed anti-Kiev activists. 3 killed immediately.

2/2 Armed anti-Kiev activists quickly to scene returned fire, destroyed 2 vehicles, reports of 2 deaths on other side, they say Pravy Sektor

New video - a close-up look at the cars destroyed when fire was returned by anti-Kiev activists here in #Sloviansk -

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