Ukraine Army Hits Rebels With Advance ‘Across All Fronts’
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Ukraine targeted pro-Russian separatists who’ve fallen back to two of the nation’s biggest eastern cities, stepping up a four-month military offensive in the wake of last week’s Malaysia Air plane disaster.
Government troops seized towns in the Donbas region and took over part of Donetsk, according to a Defense Ministry statement today on Facebook. The army has begun an “advance across all fronts,” Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, told reporters.