Abductions rise in east Ukraine as pro-Russian rebels brook no dissent


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  • Friday, 09 May 2014

Ukraine's acting president Oleksander Turchinov chairs a meeting at the presidential administration headquarters in Kiev, April 30, 2014. REUTERS/Mykhailo Markiv/

SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Every evening Antonina Sukhonos gazes up at the Slaviansk city administration building in eastern Ukraine and wonders out loud where pro-Russian gunmen are holding her son.

"If I can't have him back I just want to know why they've detained him," she said, looking up the building's steel and glass facade from behind dark sunglasses.

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