Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels said on Tuesday reported the deaths of five people in clashes in the east that raged despite a new EU push to end one of Europe’s bloodiest conflicts in decades.
A spokesman for the army in Kiev said four servicemen were killed and 12 injured in mortar fire exchanges across the eastern separatist province of Donetsk. “The situation is getting worse,” Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told a daily press briefing. “The rebels’ attacks have intensified.”
Pro-Russian militia commander Eduard Basurin told AFP that Ukrainian shells had killed one civilian and wounded another 12 in the rebels’ de facto capital of …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
