KIEV, Ukraine — Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, the day after representatives of the government and pro-Russia separatists failed to reach a truce at a meeting brokered by Russian and international mediators.
“Despite all their efforts and ungrounded claims of victory, our army concentrated enough troops, armor and artillery in the area to repel all their attacks,” said Yuri Povkh, a Defense Ministry adviser.
“We have seized 15 new villages in the area and tightened the noose around a Ukrainian army group which numbers between 8,000 and 10,000 men,” said Eduard Basurin, chief political officer of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
