Protestors on Saturday seized a police station and a security building in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

Protestors on Saturday seized a police station and a security building in Ukraine, Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

He added that another group of protestors also tried to take control of the Donetsk region's prosecutor's office but was repelled.

The early dawn raid on the police station happened in the town of Slavyansk -- about 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of the regional capital Donetsk.