KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's new leaders announced on Sunday a call-up to raise 20,000 men for a newly-created National Guard, accusing Russia of sending "touring" trouble-makers across the border to stir up separatism in the country.
Keeping tension high as pro-Russian Crimean leaders staged a referendum for the peninsula to secede to Russia, pro-Western Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk pledged to bring to justice all those trying to destroy Ukrainian independence "under the cover of Russian troops".
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