Sharp fighting in eastern Ukraine, 10 civilians killed Further deadly fighting between Sunday and separatist pro-Russian Ukrainian force in eastern Ukraine, where the search for the remains of victims of the crash of flight MH17 intensifies with the arrival of new experts. At least ten civilians were killed in 24 hours in the clash, according to the survey released Sunday by local authorities. Ukrainian forces, having gained ground in recent weeks, stepping up their efforts to isolate the separatists holed up in Donetsk, their main stronghold, those concentrated in Lugansk and along the Russian border. In Donetsk, six civilians were killed and 13 wounded in the Petrivski district, south-west, told AFP deputy mayor Kostyantyn Savinov. An AFP correspondent had seen Saturday evening several apartment buildings and a school destroyed by artillery fire, it is not possible to determine which part was originally. The city is under siege, admitted the number two of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk, Vladimir ANTYUFEYEV during a visit to refugees. We expect political support of Russia. Russia does what it can to stop firing to let you go to Russia, said the Russian citizens. In the other separatist stronghold, Lugansk, three civilians were killed, reported Sunday the mayor, who yesterday warned of a situation on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. In this city of 500,000 inhabitants before the war, water and electricity were cut, communications are disrupted and external supplies of food and fuel almost impossible. The city of Gorlivka, another city held by the rebels, scored his side dead and 16 wounded. In total, the fighting in eastern Ukraine were more than 1,100 deaths, according to the UN since the beginning of the offensive in April of Kiev, which has gained in intensity month. Ukrainian forces encounter fierce resistance separatists. The Ukrainian Staff indicated that its position had been attacked several times in the night from Saturday to Sunday by gunfire, some drawn from the territory of Russia. Around the crash site of the Boeing Malaysian controlled by the insurgents, Ukrainian and rebel forces are committed to a cease-fire but we hear regularly in recent days explosions in the distance. The Dutch and Australian expert mission, present in large numbers in place since Friday after having long been blocked by the fighting, gains in power. A hundred specialists are activated locally Sunday against the previous 70 days. We have finished our research in one of the five areas we delineated on the site of the crash, welcomed the chief Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg Netherlands Mission to the press. New found human remains Friday and Saturday were transported to Kharkiv, further north, refrigerated vehicle must fly Monday to the Netherlands to be identified. More than 200 coffins had been repatriated in the days following the disaster, such as black boxes. The painstaking research, undertaken with the help of sniffer dogs in the Ukrainian countryside, under the supervision of armed insurgents, will be long and complex more than two weeks after the disaster of 17 July, which led to soaring international tensions. Kiev directly accuses pro-Russian rebels have killed the Boeing Malaysia Airlines, which was carrying 298 passengers including 193 Dutch, with a missile provided by Moscow. The shock wave What drama led Europeans hitherto divided and reluctant to strike hard an important trading partner to adopt with U.S. economic sanctions unprecedented since the Cold War against Moscow, aimed in particular its public banks. The outgoing Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has raised the tone Sunday against Russian aggression which he says justifies the development of new defense plans. But this war rhetoric divides the Atlantic organization: some members feared a leak ahead of Vladimir Putin, according to experts led by a galvanized public opinion. In Kiev, the Ukrainian Interior Minister said that Europe and the United States should move from a policy of restraint in military matters in a massive military and technical assistance to Ukraine. First, by providing material and then with military units of NATO, said Arseniy Avakov on his blog, warning against a transformation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine in World War III .
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 01:06:34 +0000
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