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Ukraine leader orders flag raised in rebel stronghold after overnight army successes

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05-07-2014 | 03:49

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday ordered the army to raise the national flag in the separatist stronghold of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine, after hearing reports of military successes there, the presidential website said.

Earlier, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said a large number of pro-Russian separatists had fled the flashpoint city following sustained fire from Ukrainian forces.

Poroshenko's website said the newly appointed head of the armed forces general staff had told him separatist fighters came under mortar fire as they tried to break through government forces' lines. The separatists had lost one tank and other armoured vehicles.

"The President gave the order ... for the state flag to be raised on Slaviansk's town council offices," the website said, referring to one of the main buildings where the rebels had been based.

On another note, the Moscow patriarchate said the head of Ukraine's Orthodox Church died on Saturday.

"On July 5, 2014, the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, his beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev Vladimir, went to the Lord," a statement on the website said.

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church currently under the Moscow Patriarch Kirill is Ukraine's largest religious body and does not recognize the smaller Ukrainian Orthodox Church, under the Kiev patriarch, which established itself in a schism after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir, 78, ascended to the leadership of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church following the schism, during which its previous head was defrocked.

Vladimir suffered from internal bleeding and had been treated at a clinic in Kiev, Interfax reported.

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