PM Blames Security Service Over Odessa

Ukraine's PM has blamed the country's security services for failing to stop the violence in the Southern city of Odessa that left more than 40 people dead , Arsenly Yatsenyuk told reporters there would be "full , comprehensive and independent investagation"

Most of the victims the victims were Pro Russian separatists who dies in a fire after barricading themselves in a building

The PM's comments came as Ukrainian troops surrounded the Pro Russian stronghold of Sloviansk in the East ,  Mr. Yatsenyuk said of the Odessa violence "I personally blame the security service and law enforcement office for doing nothing to stop this crackdown"

He added "these security forces are inefficent and they violated the law" , he went on to say "the police chief of the Odessa region had been removed and that the prosecutor's office had started an investigation"

"The prosecutor's office is to investigate everyone , starting with the chief of police , his deputies and every single police officer"

Some 42 people died in Odessa on Friday , most of them in the fire at the Trade Union House , where separatists protesters had barricaded themselfs following running battles with Pro Kiev activities

Mr Yatsenyuk accused Russia and Pro Russian protesters of orchestrating "real war to eleminate Ukraine and eleminate Ukrainian independence"

Ukrainian troops have encircled Sloviansk as government seeks to wrest control from the separatists, Ukrainian forces have sealed off the roads in and out of the town , they are moving around it concentrating on smaller towns nearby

Gunfire was reported overnight in Kostyantynivka , where one separatist checkpoint was dismantled , and Mariupol as Ukrainian forces tried to reclaim government offices

There had been heavy fighting in the town of Krematossk on Saturday , with interior minister saying,  the army had retaken a television tower

Kiev officials said at least two people were killed in the town , although Russian state television  reported 10 deaths

Ukraine's national security and defence council chief Andriy Parubiv said on Sunday that the military would expand the "active stage of the operations in the towns where extremists and terrorists are carrying out illegal activities"