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>> yeah, abby. a number of worrying developments here in eastern, crane. the authorities in donetsk, a breakaway enclave backed by russia, out of kyiv's control reported there was an explosion near their government building. it appears to have been a russian-made car. we don't know too much more than that. frg we're hearing out of eastern ukraine in the russian-backed areas, we're taking not just with a grain of salt but with a bag of salt. we did hear from two leaders of those two breakaway enclaves today calling on their citizens to leave and evacuate to russia. they claimed there was a ukra...

To russia, trying essentially, it appears, to create some kind of an elaborate, manufactured refugee crisis. again, that's been speck hated many, many times, before, that this could give president putin some kind of pretext with 600,000 russian passport holders in that part of the country to launch some kind of an incursion. we have heard ukrainian leaders warning of the danger of that and also dismissing as theater and as provocations, these claims from pro-russian separatist leaders in the far eastern part of the country, that they have been coming under sustained attack, and that there is a...

>> martha: thanks, gillian. let's go to trey yingst reporting live live from kiev with the very latest on the ground. hi, trey. >> good afternoon. leaders in separateest controlled territory in eastern ukraine are evacuating civilians. ukrainian officials immediately pushed back against this saying that this was ludicrous and this there's no such offensive planned. they're worried this is what analysts are warning about part of a russian plan to launch a false flag operation. it was also warned that russia has placed land mines in donbas. fighting today continues in the eastern part of ukraine...

These break-away republics where they have been staging what ukrainian and u.s. officials are calling sort of false-flags or staged provocations. they have been bussing people, who have been allegedly coming under heavy fire to the border, to russia, trying essentially, it appears, to create some kind of an elaborate manufactured refugee crisis, again, as been speculated many, many times before, that this could give president putin some kind of a pretext with 600,000 russian passport holders in that part of the country to launch some kind of an incursion. we've heard ukrainian leaders warning ...