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Fox News: Russia says it has right to intervene after deadly violence in Ukraine

By Fox News.
Armed men in military fatigues stand near a painted Ukrainian coat of arms as they block access to a Ukrainian border guard base near Crimea's Perevalne on March 2.
Photo by AFP

Russia says deadly clashes in eastern Ukraine overnight show the Ukrainian government has lost control, and Moscow has the right to protect its people there. he Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that said the nation reserved the right to intervene to defend ethnic Russians being threatened in eastern Ukraine. At least one person was killed and 29 injured in violence when a hostile pro-Russian crowd confronted pro-Ukrainian activists in the city of Donetsk.

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