Local residents who live near the airport just outside Donetsk take shelter in a basement. This comes as Ukraine’s military said Monday it pulled its forces back from defending the airport — the latest in a string of reverses for Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists. At a military academy in Kiev, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Russia’s direct involvement in Kiev’s war against the separatists had tipped the balance on the battlefield. …read more
Source: The Boston Globe
