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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, people read notices placed on an information board at a pro Russia camp set up in the town of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. In 2010, the year of Ukraine’s last presidential election, Luhansk gave 89% of its votes to Victor Yanukovych, a native of another town in the Donbas coal mining region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, pro Russian activists, one of them holding a Ukrainian flag, stand around a camp they set up in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. In Ukraine’s coal-fired industrial east, a potent mix of economic depression, ethnic solidarity and nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past among those old enough to remember them have many people demanding the right to become part of Russia as well. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, a man places a Ukrainian flag atop a tent alongside flags from Russia, center, and Belarus, left, at a tent camp set up by pro Russia activists in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. Luhansk was home to one of the Soviet Union’s blue-ribbon factories that turned out locomotives deemed good enough to be designated IS--the Russian-language initials of Josef Stalin. Since Russian troops rolled into Crimea, and lawmakers there scheduled a referendum for Sunday on whether to join Russia, the world’s attention has focused on the fate of the lush peninsula that juts into the Black Sea. But here in Ukraine’s coal-fired industrial east, where Russians have lived for more than two centuries, a potent mix of economic depression, ethnic solidarity and nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past have many demanding the right to become part of Russia as well.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, men debate as people gather in a pro Russian camp in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. The breakup of the Soviet Union and harsh economic realities of the market haven’t been kind to many local employers. Residents say many factories, including the locomotive works, have had to drastically cut both payrolls and production. Since Russian troops rolled into Crimea, and lawmakers there scheduled a referendum for Sunday on whether to join Russia, the world’s attention has focused on the fate of the lush peninsula that juts into the Black Sea. But here in Ukraine’s coal-fired industrial east, where Russians have lived for more than two centuries, a potent mix of economic depression, ethnic solidarity and nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past have many demanding the right to become part of Russia as well (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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People talk in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March, 12, 2014. President Barack Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House, a gesture aimed at rebuking Russia and cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling government. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Pro Russia activists gather signatures for a referendum on secession for the Donetsk region at a central square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The Group of 7 world leaders said in a statement released from the White House on Wednesday that they won't recognize results of a referendum for the Crimea region to split from Ukraine and join Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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A man looks at the posters during the International poster campaign to support Ukraine in center Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March, 12, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House on Wednesday a gesture aimed at rebuking Russia and cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling government. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
