By Natalia Zinets
Fighting intensified around the international airport in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Thursday as pro-Russian separatists stepped up efforts to dislodge government forces and Ukraine’s military said two of its soldiers had been killed.
The complex, a battered wreck with its runways cratered by shell explosions, has not functioned as an airport since hostilities erupted last April but it remains an important symbol for both sides.
“Unfortunately, there are two (Ukrainian soldiers) killed,” Vladyslav Seleznyov, a senior member of the Ukrainian army general staff, told Interfax news agency.
In Kiev, parliament voted to refresh its front-line forces and resume partial …read more
Source: Cyprus Mail
