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Police: Russia's Special Forces hire criminal gangs to plot provocations and riots in Odesa.

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The police said that Russia intended to destabilize the situation by inciting protests and mass riots in an attempt to overthrow the Ukrainian government on May 2, the anniversary of the tragic events of 2014, when pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian groups clashed, ending up in several dozens of people getting killed by a fire in a local administrative building.

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In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on another failed round of U.S.-Russia diplomacy over a controversial peace plan, as Moscow presses ahead on the battlefield and advances in and near Pokrovsk.

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