In East Ukraine, Protesters Seek Russian Troops

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ANDREW ROTHAPRIL 7, 2014

The New York Times

MOSCOW — Under the attentive eye of Russian state television, several hundred pro-Russian demonstrators in the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, declared on Monday that they were forming an independent republic and urged President Vladimir V. Putin to send troops to the region as a peacekeeping force, even though there was no imminent threat to peace.