Ukraine's special services announce 'anti-terrorist operation'

Ukraine's State Security Service announced on Wednesday it was launching an "anti-terrorist operation" across the country after the seizure of administrative buildings and arms and ammunition depots by "extremist groups", the Reuters agency reports

"In many regions of the country, municipal buildings, offices of the interior ministry, state security and the prosecutor general, army units and arms depots are being seized," the body's chief Oleksandr Yakimenko is quoted as saying in a statement published on the security service's official website.