DHAKA: Ukraine’s prime minister on Wednesday accused Russia of ‘exporting terrorism’ to Ukraine by using covert forces to organise armed separatists who he said had attacked Ukrainian forces and occupied state buildings.

‘The Russian government must immediately call off its intelligence-diver.sionary groups, condemn the terrorists and demand that they free the buildings,’ Arseny Yatseniuk told a government meeting.

‘That is, if the Russian Federation is interested in stabilising the situation, which I have significant doubts about,’ he added, reports The Straits Times.

Meanwhile, six armoured troop carriers entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk on Wednesday carrying the Russian national flag and the banner of pro-Russian separatists, a media eyewitness said.

Several armed men, who wore different types of battle fatigues and appeared to be pro-Russia activists, sat atop each of the vehicles.

The vehicles stopped outside the town`s city hall which has for several days been occupied by separatists.

The second vehicle carried the emblem of the Donetsk People’s Republic which a group of separatists proclaimed last week and which the Kiev authorities see as a first step to seeking to break from Ukraine and join with Russia.

BDST: 1626 HRS, APR 16, 2014