Ukraine Unrest ; Orthodox Easter Messages Show Divide

The head of Ukraine's Orthodox Church Patriarch Filart accused Russia of "aggression" and "evil"

Russian Church Patriarch Kirill asked God to end the designs of those who wanted to rip apart Russia and Ukraine

Pro Russian activists in the East continue to occupy government offices , meanwhile Russia media are reporting several deaths in a gun battle near the Eastern town of Sloviansk ,reports of fatalities in the region have not been independently confirmed

A mediator from the organisation for security and co operation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Kiev , is scheduled to hold talks with them on Sunday

Ertogrul Apakan , who heads the special OSCE mission in Kiev , said his deputy would be in Donetsk to try to get them to comply with an agreement reached on Thursday to ease the crisis

In his Easter message ,Patriarch Filart said "Against our peace loving nation , which voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons , there has been agression , there has been injustice , A Country which gauaranteed the integrity and inviolability of our territory had committed aggression , God cannot be on the side of evil , so the enemy of the Ukrainian people is condemned to defeat" he said , adding "Lord , help us ressurrect Ukraine"

In Moscow , Patriarch Kirill appealed for peace , saying it " should reign in the hearts and minds of our brothers and sisters by blood and by faith , but he also said Ukraine was "spiritually and historically " at one with Russia , and he prayed for it to have authorities that were " legitimately elected" "we are single people before God " he added

Ukraine's acting President Oleksander Turchynov , said in his Eastermessage "We are living in a fateful time when the Ukrainian people have decisivvely affirmed their striving for freedom and justice"

In an interview to be aired in full later on Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press , Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arsenly Yatsenyuk acccuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to " restore the Soviet Union" , if Mr. Putin succeeded     , Mr. Yatsenyuk says , it would be the biggest disaster of this century"

Russia , Ukraine , the E.U. and U.S. agreed during talks in Geneva on Thursday , that illegal military groups in Ukraine must br dissolved , and that those occupyying government buildings must be disarmed and leave , but separatists spokesman in the city of Donetsk said that the Kiev government was "illegal" and vowed they would not go until it stepped down

Swiss envoy Christian Schoenenberger , whose country chairs the OSCE , said it's monitors had spoken to some dissidents in the East "For the time being the political will is not to move out" he said