DONETSK - On April 6, 2014, pro-Russian activists stormed the offices of the Donetsk regional administration and the Luhansk office of the secret service in eastern Ukraine, sparking a year-long insurgency against the Kyiv government in which 6,000 people have died.
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A militant of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk stands guard during a prisoner exchange with Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels on Feb. 21, 2015 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Frunze near Luhansk.