Heavy shelling hit residential neighborhoods in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion.
The forces of the Western-backed Kiev government are steadily gaining the upper hand over the separatists in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine and are tightening the noose around the main rebel bastions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Reuters reporters in Donetsk said mortar bombs had struck Chelyuskintsev Street in the north of the city, a few kilometres from the frontline of the conflict, shattering the windows of several five-floor apartment buildings and shearing off …read more
Source: Newsweek
