Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Intense fighting erupted around east Ukraine’s main rebel-held city on Sunday that wrecked a power station and briefly trapped more than 300 coal miners in one of Europe’s largest pits.Repeated rounds of rocket and mortar fire echoed across snow-covered Donetsk on Sunday evening despite a formal truce in the nine-month war.Witnesses said the shelling — particularly heavy on the northern outskirts city where a disputed airport has been under attack for months — had reached levels last seen at the height of the conflict last summer.It was not immediately clear what provoked the latest escalation of …read more
Source: Business Insider
