Via AFP:
An increasingly desperate Ukraine brought back military conscription with immediate effect on Thursday as a spreading pro-Russian rebellion in the east threatened the ex-Soviet republic with disintegration.
The move, decreed by interim president Oleksandr Turchynov, came after insurgents tightened their grip over more than a dozen eastern cities and towns.
Around 300 militants hurling petrol bombs and bricks stormed the six-storey prosecutor's building in Donetsk, beating up outnumbered riot police and stripping them of their shields and batons.
Ukrainian media reported that a prosec...
