DONETSK, Ukraine: At least 41 people were killed in Ukraine’s east yesterday, one of the deadliest days in the separatist war, with a bloody bus shelling in Donetsk as government forces abandoned their defense of the city’s strategic airport. In a graphic illustration of the degenerating nine-month conflict, pro- Russian rebels also paraded some 20 captured Ukrainian soldiers through Donetsk and forced them to kneel before enraged locals who threw snowballs and glass at them, some of it from the shattered bus. The trolleybus shelling in the rebel bastion city was the day’s bloodiest incident, with 13 civilians killed and …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
