Fierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours, officials said on Friday, as government forces and pro-Russian rebels battled to take control an airport.
A military spokesman reported six soldiers killed and 18 others wounded over the past day, adding that a civilian was left dead in a rebel strike on a checkpoint near Fashchivka in the Lugansk region.
City officials in hard-hit Donetsk earlier said four civilians died after shelling sparked a fire at a
warehouse there. “In the past day, six Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Eighteen more were wounded,” military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said.
Fierce fighting broke out yesterday around the Donetsk airport, a wrecked shell repeatedly hit by battles but still of symbolic and strategic importance. After an overnight lull, there were reports of fresh fighting on Friday.
A military spokesman reported six soldiers killed and 18 others wounded over the past day, adding that a civilian was left dead in a rebel strike on a checkpoint near Fashchivka in the Lugansk region.
City officials in hard-hit Donetsk earlier said four civilians died after shelling sparked a fire at a
warehouse there. “In the past day, six Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Eighteen more were wounded,” military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said.
Fierce fighting broke out yesterday around the Donetsk airport, a wrecked shell repeatedly hit by battles but still of symbolic and strategic importance. After an overnight lull, there were reports of fresh fighting on Friday.