By Peter Leonard
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s government said Sunday that separatists shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane after army troops entered deep inside a rebel-controlled city in the east in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month long conflict.
Ukraine’s national security council said government forces captured a district police station in Luhansk after bitter clashes in the Velika Vergunka neighbourhood.
Weeks of fighting have taken their toll on Luhansk, which city authorities say has reached the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. The siege mounted by government forces has ground delivery of basic provisions to a halt and cut off …read more
Source: canada.com
