Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine celebrated their victory over Ukrainian forces at Debaltseve Monday with parades and a huge rally in the nearby city of Donetsk. The festivities in the Russian-speaking city came as the Kyiv government asked the United Nations Security Council to deploy peacekeepers to the war-torn region.
The Donetsk rally marked a national holiday in Russia and several former Soviet republics known as Defenders of the Fatherland Day. Reports elsewhere in the region included photos of the newly installed prime minister of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, waving an AK-47 automatic rifle in the city of Simferopol, and …read more
Source: Voice of America
