Ukraine’s military began distributing food on Thursday to crowds of local residents in a frontline town battered by five days of violence that has sparked global condemnation and concern.
Government forces and Russian-backed separatists have been exchanging mortar and rocket fire around the flashpoint eastern town of Avdiivka that sits just north of the Russian-backed rebels’ de facto capital of Donetsk.
The surge in clashes since Sunday have claimed the lives of at least 20 people and reignited fears of full-scale warfare returning to Ukraine after a relative lull in 33 months of bloodshed in the European Union’s backyard.
The Avdiivka shelling left …read more
Source: Gulf times
