Ukraine's president threatened military action after pro-Russian separatists occupying government buildings in the east ignored an ultimatum to leave and another group of rebels attacked a police headquarters in the region. The flare-up came less than a month after Russia completed its annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.
The MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan just 0.2 percent up, edging back towards an 11-month high of 486.70 hit last week.
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