Editor’s note: VOA’s London-based senior foreign correspondent, Al Pessin, spent six days in eastern Ukraine last week reporting on the Ukrainian military, frontline villages and towns, refugees and efforts to care for wounded troops.
A thick layer of ice and a thin layer of snow cover much of eastern Ukraine. But it’s melting, with temperatures most days unseasonably high.
Experts say that enabled the Russian-backed rebels to launch their expected spring offensive early, overrunning Ukrainian defenders at the Donetsk airport, and pushing them back all along the former cease-fire line.
And intense fighting continues.
Last Sunday morning, several ambulances carrying seriously wounded Ukrainian …read more
Source: Voice of America
