Pro-Russia Protesters Occupy Regional Government In East Ukrainian City

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian demonstrators occupied the first floor of the regional government building in east Ukraine's city of Donetsk on Monday.

A Reuters reporter in a press center on the fourth floor of the building said the protesters had seized the first floor but were unable to go higher because lifts were disabled and stairwell doors shut.

The 11-storey building has been flying the Russian flag, rather than the Ukrainian flag, for three days, with demonstrators carrying Russian flags staging rallies outside.

(Reporting by Lina Kushch; Editing by Peter Graff)

Pro-Kremlin accounts say this is a video of the anti-Kiev protesters breaking into the building: