The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists are each claiming that the other side violated a cease-fire at a battle near Donetsk. The groups have had numerous failed cease-fires over the last year in a conflict that has killed thousands.
Separatists claim 15 people in the territory they illegally annexed from Ukraine were killed on Wednesday, including civilians. This claim could not be independently confirmed by the Associated Press, which first reported the news, nor by Newsweek. Rebel chief Vladimir Kononov told Interfax, a Russian news service, that Ukraine’s military “started shelling our positions all along the front.”
Though Russian news services, which …read more
Source: Newsweek
