KIEV (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday said it had repelled a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threatened to erase a shacky ceasefire and dangerously escalate the 16-month war in its breakaway east.President Petro Poroshenko said about 200 insurgents used tanks to storm Novolaspa — a village halfway between the separatists de facto capital Donetsk and the Kiev-held port of Mariupol — in a pre-dawn raid that caught government soldiers off guard.Chief of Staff General Viktor Muzhenko informed the president that the Ukrainian forces gave a fitting rebuff and repelled all the attacks, the presidency said.But the defence ministry …read more
Source: Dunya TV
