Via AFP:
Ukrainians thronged to the polls Sunday to elect a president who could avert civil war and financial ruin, facing a bloody pro-Russian insurgency that halted voting across the separatist east.
The ex-Soviet nation on the EU's eastern frontier is fighting for its very survival after Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to the popular overthrow of a Kremlin-backed leader by seizing Crimea, parking thousands of troops on the Ukraine border and backing an uprising in the east.
The insurgency that has riven the Russian-speaking eastern rust belt since early April -- home to seven of U...
