Ukraine’s president has called for U.N. peacekeepers to help in an anti-terror operation against separatists.
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Ukranian troops stand guard at a checkpoint near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, April 15, 2014.
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A Ukrainian soldier stands guard at a checkpoint near the city of Barvenkovo in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, April 15, 2014.
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Members of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry walk past an MI-8 military helicopter and armored personnel carriers at a checkpoint near the town of Izyum, eastern Ukraine, April 15, 2014.
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Ukraine's energy minister, Yuri Prodan (right), and Slovakia's economy minister, Tomas Malatinsky (2nd left), attend a meeting at a delivery station of pipeline operator Eustream in the eastern Slovak town of Velke Kapusany, near the border with Ukraine, April 15, 2014.