Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had paid a “high price” for their escalating attacks on government forces across the separatist east.”Our enemy paid a high price for its opportunistic attacks on our armed forces,” his office quoted Poroshenko as telling an emergency security meeting convened after Kiev’s decision to give up its months-long defence of Donetsk airport in the east.Poroshenko said he intended to award medals to a skeleton force of Ukrainian paratroopers who had managed to hold on to the prized site despite being surrounded and outnumbered by the heavily armed …read more
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