DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — At least 12 militiamen fighting alongside government troops against pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have been killed in an ambush, a spokesman for their radical nationalist movement said Wednesday.
Artem Skoropatsky said the fighters with the Right Sector volunteer battalion were shot dead while traveling on a bus outside the rebel-held city of Donetsk, which is under siege by government troops.
The Right Sector volunteer battalion does not formally operate within the government armed forces but coordinates its activities with the security services and the Defense Ministry.
Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
