Five Ukrainian troops have been killed by intense rebel shelling in the east of the country, the military says, in a new escalation of fighting.
Four of them died during an eight-hour clash near Krymske, a village 50km (31 miles) north-west of Luhansk.
The UN says more than 10,000 people have died since the eastern Ukraine conflict erupted in April 2014, soon after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
Armed men in camouflage, without insignia, blocked access to some administrative buildings in Luhansk on Tuesday, hours after rebel leader Igor Plotnitsky had sacked his "interior minister" Igor Kornet.
The armed men who appeared on the streets were loyal to Mr Kornet, AFP news agency reported from Luhansk.
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