Odessapolice free 67 detained in clashes
Odessa: Police in Odessa have freed some detained activists after hundreds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed police headquarters in the Ukrainian port city.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that 67 people who were detained after deadly clashes were released on Sunday. It was not immediately clear whether others were still being held. More than 40 people died in the clashes on Friday, some from gunshot wounds, but most in a fire that tore through a trade union building.
Russian bombers, jets ‘seen over Crimea’
Simferopol: Several dozen Russian planes including what appeared to be strategic bombers and fighter jets have been spotted in the sky above the Moscow-controlled peninsula of Crimea, witnesses and experts said.
According to Russian media, President Vladimir Putin is poised to visit Crimea on Friday after overseeing the main military parade on Red Square when Russia celebrates its victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. A local aviation expert told AFP that he had sighted a number of planes over the peninsula’s main city of Simferopol on Saturday, including supersonic heavy strategic bombers and heavy military transport aircraft.