Pro-Russian activists rally for peace

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A Pro-Russian separatist is laid to rest in eastern Ukraine on Saturday.

46-year-old Vasily Burov was killed on Thursday in the Donetsk region during Ukraine's ongoing "anti-terrorist" military operation.

As Ukrainian military planes flew above Donetsk Saturday, some two-thousand Pro-Russian activists took to the city square demanding peace.

SOUNDBITE (Russian) DONETSK RESIDENT SVETLANA SAYING:

"Here are the ordinary residents of Donetsk, we are being killed from all directions. There is army surrounding us. It has to be stopped immediately, I don't know by what means or methods, but the army should be withdrawn from here. Now Donetsk residents are being killed and that's why we are here."

Waving flags of Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, the crowd sang along to a popular Soviet-era song.

Signs showed support for the Donbass region where the pro-Russian separatist movement has taken hold.

Leader of the Donetsk People's R

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