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we've left Lans because we've heard some
big news and it seems like Russian
Special Forces may have taken over a
police station in another part of
eastern Ukraine so we're heading there
to confirm that that's actually happened
but if it has it might be the Crimean
scenario I repeating itself all over
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again so this is the barricade near the
police headquarters in SL we just made
it through uh
everybody is being very
difficult this police station was taken
over yesterday it's one of three in the
area that have already been captured by
pro-russia forces the interior Minister
says that there's a operation to take it
back on its way but we haven't seen any
sign of that so far but it's pretty
clear that the People's Republic of
detet is getting bigger they've got
Molotov cocktails Reed here um but uh I
think the real weapon that they'd be
using if they get stormed are all the
AK-47s that they've got
inside we still can't say 100% whether
this was taken over by
Russia
for
nor
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the plan they've used seems to be pretty
much the same everywhere at night armed
men come in storm a building occupy the
building and then the crowds outside
protect the building from anybody
getting
through the difference between what's
happened here and in other cities that
we've visited is that it's not just the
police headquarters or an administration
building that's occupied here in slan
the whole city is under control of pro
Russia forces because they've got
checkpoints on all the entrances and
exits
for
this car here is uh obviously some kind
of an official vehicle because it's got
a siren inside it the local councilman
is saying that it was here with the
Ukrainian troops um but there's
something fishy about everything that
we've seen is because the license plates
have been taken off all of the cars put
onto the seats so we don't know if they
were the original license plates and he
keeps making a point of saying that this
was a provocation set up by the
ukrainians themselves I don't know if
it's true but it looks like they're
playing the blame
game here's my theory about what
happened today given the
counterterrorism operation that the
interior Ministry announced that never
materialized and the shooting on the
outskirts of town I think the ukrainians
came up to slaviansk planning to try to
take it over but then some of the
pro-russian forces or maybe even Russian
Special Forces attacked them and they
lost the stomach for fight and cleared
out of
town