Ukrainian forces have launched an operation against pro-Russian activists who seized a police station on Saturday, the interior minister says.
Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page that "all security units" were involved in an "anti-terror operation" in the eastern city of Sloviansk.
A group of pro-Russian men armed with automatic weapons have taken control of the police headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, 150 km from the Russian border, local officials and witnesses said.
An organised military unit of over 20 men wearing matching military fatigues and carrying automatic weapon took over the building around 1700 GMT after arriving on at least two buses.
Video footage showed the men taking orders from a commander and shooting from automatic rifles as they approached the building.
Ealier a gunbattle erupted after security forces engaged the men who attacked the station, the interior minister said.
"Unknown men opened fire at the district police station. The police are firing back. They have been exchanging fire," Arsen Avakov said late on Saturday on his Facebook page.
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