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More than 10,000 people have taken part over two weeks in an online referendum on the military status of Montenegro, the pro-Russian organization behind the vote said.

The vote is a move to pressure the authorities to organize a national plebiscite on NATO membership.

The announcement that the US will deploy another armored brigade to Eastern Europe has been welcomed by security experts in Bucharest and Sofia as a fresh sign of its commitment to NATO's collective security in the face of Russia's assertiveness in the region.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said his country will be able to meet EU accession criteria in up to 5 years.

In Poroshenko's words quoted by UNIAN news agency, integration into the 28-nation bloc is the government's main goal.

MINSK - OSCE efforts aimed at calling a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group and pro-Russian activists from eastern Ukraine still have not produced results, and OSCE Chair and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic pointed to the importance of the talks and called on all relevant sides to organise a meeting as soon as possible, states the release issued on Friday.

"Bodies in NATO uniforms" found at Donetsk airport

DONETSK -- The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) says that "bodies in NATO uniforms" were found in the Donetsk airport ruins.

Spokesman Eduard Basurin also said that "a great number of U.S.-made weapons" was recovered from under the debris.

Children among casualties as fighting continues in Ukraine

DONETSK -- Ukrainian armed forces on Sunday shelled more than 50 times the area of ??Donetsk and Gorlovka, while at least eight people were killed and 32 wounded.

This information came from the ministry of defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

More people die as shelling of Donetsk continues

DONETSK -- At least two women were killed on Friday in the shelling of the town of Donetsk carried out by the Ukrainian army, Voice of Russia is reporting.

Strong detonations were heard in downtown and near the airport, where rebels and Ukrainian security forces continue to fight.

Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed to punish pro-Russian rebels who downed an army helicopter in the east of the country, killing 12 troops in one of the deadliest attacks of the insurgency.

Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian helicopter Thursday, killing 12 soldiers including a general in one of the biggest setbacks in Kiev's seven-week campaign against insurgents in the separatist east.
      

Officials confident in Ukraine's planned May 25th election