Despite Moscow denials, Ukrainian volunteers give accounts of fighting Russian army in Ilovaysk outside DonetskBloodied, dirty and stinking, the Ukrainian soldiers who passed through the town of Komsomolske on Saturday morning made for a sorry sight. But they were the lucky ones, who had managed to escape alive from an assault they say involved regular units of the Russian army.Having fled from encirclement in the town of Ilovaysk, their column of 70 armoured vehicles and hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers had been trapped in an ambush and shelled, according to one soldier. “Our vehicles were colliding with one another and our …read more
Source: The Guardian
