KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Monday its forces were battling a Russian tank battalion for control of a vital airport in the east of the country as President Petro Poroshenko accused Moscow of “direct and open aggression” against his country.
Ukrainian coastguards meanwhile searched for two seamen missing after one of their patrol boats was sunk in the Sea of Azov by artillery fire from pro-Russian separatists on the shore.
Eight other seamen survived Sunday’s attack and were being treated for wounds and burns, a border guard official said.
Several hundred Ukrainian forces are bogged down near Ilovaysk, east of the …read more
Source: Newsweek
