DONETSK: Several hundred Ukrainians in the country’s war-torn east demanded Monday that pro-Russian insurgents remove scores of rocket launchers from crowded city neighbourhoods and stop provoking government fire on their homes.
The small but unusual demonstration outside the offices of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic suggested that an undercurrent of resentment with the new authorities was appearing in eastern Ukraine’s main rebel-held town.
Districts around Donetsk and Lugansk — capital of a neighbouring separatist region — have witnessed the return of intense fighting that has claimed more than 50 lives this month.
That upsurge followed more than three months of relative calm that …read more
Source: theSun