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When a group of Ukrainian paratroopers were briefly detained by armed men in this eastern Ukrainian town last week, officials in Kiev said the move bore little sign of pro-Russian separatists working in isolation.
Rather, Ukraine's fledgling government says such well-organized actions are at the center of a covert effort by Russian intelligence officers to direct and organize parts of the pro-Russian separatist movement roiling eastern Ukraine.