BBC LIVE: Ukraine Accuses Russia of Invasion
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- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Russia has sent troops to eastern Ukraine.
- Mr Poroshenko cancelled a trip to Turkey and called urgent meetings of officials to consider Ukraine's response.
- The accusation came as pro-Russian rebels seized control of Novoazovsk in the south-east, threatening to take the port of Mariupol next.
- Alexander Zakharchenko, a pro-Russian rebel leader in eastern Ukraine, said 3-4,000 Russian citizens were fighting with the rebels.
- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is holding urgent talks on the crisis.
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