Images from Ukraine
![Police look at portraits of missing political activists and journalists that protesters pasted on the gate of the Crimean Interior Ministry in Simferopol, March 18, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/649B2910-3E68-45DE-8D83-127237F2378B_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Police look at portraits of missing political activists and journalists that protesters pasted on the gate of the Crimean Interior Ministry in Simferopol, March 18, 2014.
![Members of a "Maidan" self-defense battalion take part in a training exercise at a Ukrainian Interior Ministry base near Kyiv, March 17, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/526ABA7C-2AE1-4E9A-97E1-760DF2BE31EF_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of a "Maidan" self-defense battalion take part in a training exercise at a Ukrainian Interior Ministry base near Kyiv, March 17, 2014.
![A Ukrainian serviceman guards a checkpoint near the village of Strelkovo in the Kherson region adjacent to Crimea, March 17, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/CD7A5C7B-8EC0-4FA1-A11F-D3F4022CE3FD_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Ukrainian serviceman guards a checkpoint near the village of Strelkovo in the Kherson region adjacent to Crimea, March 17, 2014.
![Members of a Crimean self-defense unit speak with a motorcyclist waving a Russian flag in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, March 17, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1790E0F6-EC02-4B31-85FF-0C02E1167C31_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of a Crimean self-defense unit speak with a motorcyclist waving a Russian flag in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, March 17, 2014.