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Pro-Russians seize Donetsk prosecutor's office

01 May 2014 18:17 (UTC +04:00)

The attackers hurled rocks at police. Tear gas and stun grenades were also fired but it is not clear by whom.

Live TV footage later showed militants disarming the police and escorting them out of the building.

Ukraine blames Russia for organising the seizures of a number of offices in the east. Moscow denies the claim.

Also in the Donetsk region, activists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic seized the town council of Amvrosiyivka, local media reports said.

In a separate development, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Russia in a phone call to President Vladimir Putin to help free foreign monitors held in eastern Ukraine.

The military observers were seized by pro-Russia separatists at a checkpoint in the flashpoint town of Sloviansk last Friday.

On Wednesday, a Russian military attache was detained in Ukraine on suspicion of spying and ordered to leave the country.

Kiev 'helpless'

In Donetsk, the pro-Russian militants attacked the prosecutor's office, accusing those inside of siding with the government in Kiev.