East Ukraine protesters joined by miners on the barricades

Pro-Russian supporters, Donetsk

Word spread quickly through the few hundred pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine: “The miners are coming!”

The crowd parted as a group of a dozen or so burly men in orange work helmets marched past barbed-wire and tyre barricades into the 11-storeyadministration building, which protesters seized last weekend as they demanded greater independence from Kiev.

The Guardian

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