A number of clashes were reported in eastern Ukraine, in both Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, with at least 10 Ukrainian troops reported slain and a handful of others wounded in the incidents. Casualties on the rebel side were not disclosed.
The largest incident was in Luhansk, where three police were killed in a single incident while out on patrol near Makarove, with five others wounded. One of the wounded reportedly died later in the hospital.
Though it was unclear what casualties there were on the rebel side, there were clearly some, as the Ukrainian Army reportedly destroyed three civilian homes near the airport in Donetsk with intense shelling aimed at driving the rebels away from the strategically important, albeit virtually destroyed, airport.
The Ukrainian government has predicted that fighting would pick up, and has been sending a large number of additional troops into the area in recent days, suggesting the ceasefire which has held for a little over a month may soon be coming to an end.
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"The Ukrainian government has predicted that fighting would pick up" -Ditz
The ukie Nazi junta and the CIA, residing in a 5 storey building in Kiev, has not only predicting, mind you, but actively provoking for it to happen. Not a week has gone by without the killing and terrorizing of civillians by the most indoctrinated nazi death squads responsible for the vilest atrocities and crimes against humanity in the war on Donbass. Two of them on the two oligarchs Poroshenko/Pol Pot Shenko (org. surname Waltzman) and Ukie-israeli Kolomoisky´s payroll. You never hear an ything of that in western MSM orwellian media, that it is a war waged by oligarchs and their private mercenaries.
Why? They have said it themselves: To clear Donbass of "cockroaches, subhumans and scum" i.e Russian speaking ukrainians (so Hunter Biden can start his fracking business). Pol Pot Shenko said yesterday: "Our children will go to the kindergartens and their will sit in the basement" check it out; http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.se/2014/11/the-nazi…
Imagine the outrage if just some of the truth about thesse US nurtured and cared for Nazi´s was reported…
GOOD
Germany, Empire USA and all the NATO nations, they knew ahead of time that a fascist coup was going to destroy the democratic elected government in Ukraine, yet not did they stop it but surely it was NATO nations who orchestrated and funded it.
Porkie's economy is about to self-destruct and the only international "friends" that he has are the neo-cons who are willing to destroy Ukraine in order to help Israel.