DEBALTSEVE (AFP) – Terrified civilians piled onto a convoy of buses Friday as they took advantage of a brief truce to flee the east Ukraine battleground town of Debaltseve.Clutching the few possessions they could carry, residents gathered in small groups on the shrapnel-scarred main square to seize the window of a few hours to flee the shelling.After over a week of fierce fighting, pro-Russian rebels battling to encircle and take the town had agreed with government forces holding on there to ceasefire to allow civilians to clear out.Two dozen buses from both the Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatist sides drove into …read more
Source: Dunya TV
