Street-to-street fighting has broke out inside Debaltseve, a key transport hub in eastern Ukraine, threatening the country’s already fragile three-day old ceasefire. Debaltseve has been largely encircled by heavily armed rebels who previously had been exchanging continous artillery fire with up to 8,000 government troops holed up inside. Pro-Russian rebels said government troops had surrendered and they had taken control of the town, located between the separatist-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, but Ukrainian sources claim that their soldiers still hold the town… …read more
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