DONETSK, Ukraine — A night-long artillery exchange in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Russia-backed rebels claimed nine lives on Monday, casting doubt on the already shaky cease-fire.
The fighting between Russia-backed separatist rebels and Ukrainian government troops in the country’s industrial heartland eased after a truce was signed in February.
The rebel mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency said artillery fire killed three people in a front-line town of Horlivka and two in the rebel capital of Donetsk.
Putin has alleged that Kiev’s decisions are heavily influenced by Western powers including the U.S. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday accused the Ukrainian government …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
