KIEV: Some Ukrainian forces began to pull out of a town under siege by Russian-backed separatists today as renewed fighting threatened to wreck an international deal aimed at ending the conflict.
Rebel forces, who the pro-Western government in Kiev say are supported and armed by Moscow, fought their way into the eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve on Tuesday, ignoring a ceasefire which came into effect on Sunday.
Rebels say the truce, negotiated by Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France at a summit in Belarus last week, does not apply to Debaltseve, a railway and transport hub which links the two rebel-controlled regions of …read more
Source: theSun
