More than 30 pro-Russian demonstrators are dead in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa following a fire in a government building.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry says the majority died in the fire, while eight were killed when they jumped from the building.
The fire followed street battles between crowds of Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian separatists. Odessa, which sits on the Black Sea 300 miles from Crimea, is Ukraine's third largest city. Until now, the city had largely avoided much of the violence that's swept Ukraine since the EuroMaidan revolution started in November 2013
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