Russia and the U.S. traded barbs at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as a deadline passed for pro-Russian separatists to leave buildings they occupied amid escalating violence in eastern Ukraine . Russia called the meeting after protests escalated near Slovyansk, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the Russian frontier. Camouflaged gunmen fired on Kiev government troops in an anti-terror operation, killing one serviceman and wounding five, the Ukrainian government said. At the UN, Russia demanded the U.S. press Ukraine to drop acting President Oleksandr Turchynov’s 9 a.m. deadline to vacate the buildings. As of 9:44 a.m. local time, there were no reports of Ukrainian forces moving on the buildings. The U.S. said Russia was destabilizing Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin ’s government was telling “fairy tales” in accusing America and its allies of fomenting the unrest. The meeting comes as officials from NATO, the European […]