Ukrainian authorities claimed Friday that government forces killed as many as 200 pro-Russia gunmen in the previous 24 hours and that Moscow had sent in an armored column including 32 tanks and 30 truckloads of fighters.
Reports of intensified fighting across separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine threatened to force another suspension of the just-resumed investigation at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site, where more remains of victims were found Thursday. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
