Heavy artillery fire on Wednesday rocked east Ukraine’s main rebel bastion of Donetsk in the fiercest fighting around the city in days, an AFP journalist said.The explosion of outgoing mortars being fired from near the centre towards government positions at the ruined airport could be heard from early in the morning, setting off car alarms, the correspondent said.Donetsk’s city hall said in a statement that “the sound of artillery fire and explosions can be heard in all districts” of the mining hub.The intensified shelling, the heaviest heard since the weekend, comes after monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation …read more
Source: Egypt Independent
