Supporters of federalization, who came to the building of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, put forward a number of demands to the governor Mikhail Bolotskikh , who was appointed after the change of power in Ukraine. The activists demanded that the governor declare by April 16 that the Lugansk region was not subordinating to the “illegal Kiev authorities, to recognize the people’s movement as legitimate,” and also to release all prisoners for political reasons. Self-defense units begin to form. The police of Lugansk goes over to the side of the people.
7 April 2014
In Lugansk, supporters of federalization managed to take control of the building of the regional department of the Security Service of Ukraine. On the same day,
