KIEV – Intense fighting in Ukraine, including a rocket strike on Kiev’s military headquarters in the east, killed at least 20 people on Tuesday on the eve of a four-way peace summit.Pro-Russia rebels sought to encircle railway hub Debaltseve, and Ukrainian forces launched a counter-offensive around the strategic port of Mariupol as diplomats scrambled to finalise a deal to end the 10-month war at the summit in Minsk planned for Wednesday.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said rockets from a Tornado multiple launch system for the first time hit the military’s command centre in Kramatorsk, a regional capital behind the frontlines considered …read more
Source: AsiaOne
