Despite the cease-fire agreement, renewed fighting flared up Saturday in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and government forces, while Moscow sent a second convoy of trucks into Ukraine without Kiev’s consent.Ukraine’s military operation said in a statement that it had successfully repelled a rebel attack on the government-held Donetsk airport, which came under artillery fire from rebel positions late on Friday.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has been at pains to prove that the cease-fire deal has yielded improvements on the ground in east Ukraine. On Saturday, the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said shortly after a second convoy of Russian trucks …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
