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The BBC's Olexiy Solohubenko says the situation is very tense
Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have seized state security buildings in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukrainian officials say.
The Luhansk security building's weapons arsenal has been raided, police say.
On Sunday, protesters broke into regional government buildings in Donetsk and Kharkiv.
At an emergency cabinet meeting, interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk blamed Russia for the seizures.
"The plan is to destabilize the situation, the plan is for foreign troops to cross the border and seize the country's territory, which we will not allow,'' he said, adding that people engaged in the unrest have distinct Russian accents.
Police have blocked roads leading into Luhansk.
Officials said Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy and Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko have been sent to the city.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov had already arrived in Kharkiv, and First Deputy Prime Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema is on his way to Donetsk, Defence Council Deputy Secretary Victoria Syumar said.
She said they had "all the authority necessary to take action against separatism."
The latest developments come as Ukraine's defence ministry said a Russian soldier had killed a Ukrainian military officer still loyal to Kiev in eastern Crimea late on Sunday.
Russia took control of the Black Sea peninsula last month
Another Ukrainian officer present is reported to have been beaten and detained by Russian troops in Sunday's incident in the small town of Novofyodorovka.
The circumstances of the incident are unclear.
A defence ministry spokesman said the soldier had been preparing his belongings to leave Crimea in a few days, when an argument broke out with Russian servicemen.
He was then shot twice on the fifth floor of the dormitory where he lived.
He was named as Stanislav Karachevsky, who was married and had two children.
But Russian media reports said a group of Ukrainian soldiers had been drinking and were on their way home when they passed Russian soldiers guarding an entry to the military base where they previously worked, prompting an argument between the two groups.
Russian news agencies reported that prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the death.
The crisis has heightened nervousness in many other eastern European states, with Czech President Milos Zeman saying Nato should deploy troops in Ukraine if Russia invades.
"If Russia decides to extend its territorial expansion to eastern Ukraine, the fun is over," he told Czech public radio on Sunday.
Tensions have escalated in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks. Russia is consolidating its grip on Crimea, annexed by Moscow last month, and thousands of Russian troops remain massed near the Ukrainian border.
Ukrainian authorities say protesters have now left the government building in Kharkiv.
But in Luhansk on Monday police said "unknown people who are in the [security] building have broken into the building's arsenal and have seized weapons".
In Donetsk, groups occupying the provincial government building remain barricaded inside.
Ukraine's interim President Olexander Turchynov cancelled a visit to Lithuania to deal personally with the unfolding events.
Meanwhile Ukraine's prime minister has accused Russia on Monday of sowing unrest in his country's eastern provinces as a pretext for dispatching troops across the border.
Mr Yatsenyuk said Russian troops remain stationed within 30 kilometres (19 miles) of the frontier. The city of Luhansk is just 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Russia.
On Monday, Russia also banned the import of dairy products from Ukraine on health grounds.
Eastern Ukraine was the political heartland of Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian president who fled to Russia in February after months of protests.
About half of the region's residents are ethnic Russians, many of whom believe Ukraine's acting authorities are extreme Ukrainian nationalists who will oppress Russians - a claim Kiev denies.
Russia has moved large numbers of troops to areas near the Ukrainian border, and has asserted its right to intervene in Ukraine in order to protect the rights of ethnic Russians there.
Since Crimea held a secession referendum - before being formally annexed by Russia - there have been calls for similar votes in Ukraine's east.
Russia has branded the new leadership in Kiev illegitimate. The crisis is the biggest standoff between Moscow and the West since the end of the Cold War.
Are you in the region? Send us your reactions. You can email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk using the subject line 'Ukraine'.
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