President-elect pledges to do everything to stop further deaths after attack over Slavyansk kills 14, including army generalUkraine’s president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, has vowed to punish pro-Russian rebels who shot down an army helicopter in the east of the country, killing 14 people, including a general, in one of the deadliest attacks of the insurgency.The Mil Mi-8 helicopter gunship was downed over Slavyansk by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile on Thursday, prompting the White House to say the incident raised concerns about the rebels being supplied “from the outside”. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
