Fighting between Ukrainian government and separatist forces in the country’s east claimed more lives Friday, as an intense battle for control of the Donetsk airport continued.
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said six servicemen had been killed and 18 wounded over the preceding 24 hours, and that a civilian had been killed in a rebel strike on a military checkpoint in the town of Fashchevka in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region.
Officials in the city of Donetsk said four civilians had been killed and one wounded after shelling sparked a warehouse fire.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Yuri Biryukov wrote on Facebook that Russia-backed separatists had …read more
Source: Voice of America
