DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Government troops have taken a rebel stronghold in east Ukraine, the country’s president and a spokesman for the rebels said Saturday.
President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement that government troops took Slovyansk, a city of about 100,000 that has been a center of the fighting between Kiev’s troops and the pro-Russian insurgents, after a night of fighting. It was a rare significant success for Kiev’s forces in their struggle to quell the rebellion. Poroshenko commanded the armed forces to raise the Ukrainian flag over Slovyansk, which has been under control of the rebels since early April …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
