ABOVE: At least two people were killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk when shells hit a market and residential area.
DONETSK, Ukraine – After days of intense fighting, Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Monday they had seized control of Donetsk airport once again. The Ukrainian military denied this but acknowledged that the fighting for the rubble-strewn trophy had been fierce.
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 66 wounded in the previous 24 hours, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters in Kyiv, but he would not say how many of those casualties occurred at the airport.
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Source: Global TV
