Shelling In Donetsk Still Intense After Hours And Ukrainian Airstrikes The city of Donetsk has been rocked by shelling tonight. Conflict Report has pulled several clips off of RTs live video feed from northwest Donetsk near the International Airport which is controlled by Ukrainian soldiers and has been surrounded by the Russian-backed separatists for months: This report, meanwhile, is three hours old. But the fighting at Donetsk Airport is not new. The separatists have been shelling Ukraines military outpost there for months, despite the ceasefire, and Ukraine has returned fire often. Civilian casualties are a regular occurrence. Fighting has been escalating for days, and now the Ukrainian government has said that it has killed as many as 200 rebels in airstrikes which were a response to increased attacks. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Ukraines military said its forces killed as many as 200 rebels in fighting in Donetsk as dozens of tanks and other military vehicles crossed the border into Ukraine from Russia. Insurgents who were shelling Ukrainian troop positions at Donetsk Airport yesterday were killed by government troop artillery strikes, Ukraines Defence Ministry said on its website. Four separatist tanks, two armoured personnel carriers, two howitzers, and an infantry combat vehicle were destroyed, and up to 200 insurgents were killed. The death toll, which couldnt be independently confirmed, is the biggest reported number of troops or fighters killed since the start of a September 5 truce. Earlier, the Ukrainian government said it had suffered more than 100 killed and about 600 wounded since the cease-fire came into force. https://m.youtube/watch?v=_GI1skPsfo8
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:58:59 +0000
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