3 Pro-Russian Protesters was killed by the Ukrainian Security Forces

Ukrainian interior minister said that three pro-Russian protesters are killed by the Ukrainian security forces. In the night 13 were got injured and 63 was arrested in the operation overnight in the eastern city of Mariupol.  The clash was the most lethal so far in the east of the country.

The minister, Arsen Avakov, said pro-Russian protesters had tried to storm a base used by troops in the newly formed National Guard, which has drawn from volunteers who took part in last winter’s protest movement against the government.

A crowd made up of civilians as well as militants formed outside the base, he said. Mr. Avakov’s description of the conflict indicated another challenge for the new government, as in other cases where pro-Russian groups have seized administrative buildings and police stations.

The events in Mariupol overnight, and in the towns of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk north of the provincial capital of Donetsk on Wednesday, underscored both the limits of Ukraine’s military and the difficulties of the tactical problems it faces in its attempt to dislodge armed separatists from eastern Ukraine.