Witnesses heard gunfire early Tuesday near the airport. The clashes come a day after separatists stormed the site and set off fighting that continued into the night.
One rebel said Tuesday that 30 of their fighters had been killed. The death toll could not be independently confirmed.
Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire and former prime minister who won overwhelming support in Sunday's presidential election, said Monday that peace can be reached through dialogue, but that arms should be used against those the separatists he called "terrorists."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed support for negotiations to defuse the crisis, saying the chance for dialogue with Ukraine cannot be wasted.
Election results
Ukraine's election commission reported Poroshenko had earned about 54 percent of the vote in Sunday's election with ballots counted from more than half of the country's precincts.
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was in second place with 13 percent........[voanews.com]
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- Forty said dead in Donetsk fighting, most of them rebels ...
DONETSK (Ukraine) — Forty people have been killed in the past day of fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the eastern city of Donetsk, the mayor said on Tuesday, while a rebel put his side's losses at at least 29.
Mayor Alexander Lukyanchenko told reporters that the bodies had been counted of 38 of those involved in fighting around the airport. It was unclear how many were rebels, he said, adding that two civilians had also died.
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Casualties in Donetsk clashes may reach 100 people...
ReplyDeleteFatalities may reach 100 people in a punitive operation active stage of which Ukrainian law enforcement agencies started in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday. Chairman of the Supreme Council presidium of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin reported this to ITAR-TASS on Tuesday.
Denis Pushilin added that there were up to 50 civilians among the victims.
“At present, it is known that more than 50 militiamen have been killed. In addition, according to preliminary reports, from 20 up to 50 civilians died,” he said. Pushilin has noted that until now “it is impossible to take away the bodies of all the victims, because snipers are shooting at everyone who attempts to approach them”.
Earlier, Donetsk mayor Alexander Lukyanchenko has confirmed that at least 40 people were killed in a military operation carried out by the Ukrainian security forces in the city. He said that all of them died in combat near the city’s airport.
Parliament-appointed Minister of Interior Affairs Arsen Avakov has confirmed that “dozens of people” died in the special raid.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/733487
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