Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s tattered ceasefire came under new strain Wednesday as shelling killed two teenagers playing football in rebel-held Donetsk and President Petro Poroshenko said he was deploying reinforcements to face a threatened separatist offensive.In another sign of Ukraine’s ever more permanent looking break-up, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he was cutting subsidies to the rebel Donetsk and Lugansk regions, so as not to finance “terrorists”.A government source told AFP the measures would include scrapping pensions for hundreds of thousands of people living in separatist areas.Although large-scale military action has ceased in the ex-Soviet republic since a September …read more
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