KIEV, Ukraine—Ukraine claimed Monday that pro-Russia rebels fired rockets and mortars on a convoy of civilians who were trying to flee from the intense fighting in eastern Ukraine.
“Many people were killed, among them women and children,” Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s national security council, told reporters. He did not say how many people or vehicles were in the convoy.
The barrage took place between the towns of Khryashchuvate and Novosvitlivka, which lie on the main road leading to Russia from the besieged rebel-held city of Luhansk.
Lysenko gave no further details and there was no immediate comment on his statement …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
