Friday, January 30, 2015

Ukraine battle rages for key town in eastern Ukraine

First entry: 30 January 2015 - 14:59 Athens

Ukraine battle rages for key town in eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels are exchanging heavy tank and artillery fire in and around Debaltseve, a strategic town in eastern Ukraine.
Many civilians remain trapped in Debaltseve, while others - including people with shrapnel wounds - have managed to reach the town of Artemivsk.
Russia's Vesti TV news programme says some 8,000 Ukrainian troops are surrounded in Debaltseve.
It also quotes the rebels as saying they have pushed Ukrainian troops out of Vuhlehirsk, though rebel positions in the village are still being shelled.
An Ukrainian MP in the conflict zone, Semen Semenchenko, reports that the rebels now control part of Vuhlehirsk, but that Ukrainian troops are still holding out there amid heavy shelling.
Source: BBC

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