Monday 26 May 2014 15.00 Three Ukrainian helicopter gunships have mounted a heavy attack on the rebel-held international airport terminal at Donetsk.
They are firing rockets and cannon and throwing out decoy flares as militants shoot at them from the ground.
A battle for the airport has been under way for over three hours in a fierce and dramatic confrontation just a day after Ukraine elected a new president, Petro Poroshenko.
Mr Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate manufacturer, claimed the presidency emphatically.
Counting continues in the elections, however a clear majority of voters have given Mr Poroshenko a mandate to steer the country towards stability following months of bloodshed and upheaval.
The 48-year-old won 55% in exit polls on a first round ballot marred by millions unable to vote in troubled eastern regions.
He is expected to be declared the winner in the coming days.
Runner-up Yulia Tymoshenko, on 13%, has made it clear she will concede, sparing the country a tense three weeks until a run-off round.
Preliminary results with almost 25% of votes counted gave Mr Poroshenko 54.1% and former premier Ms Tymoshenko 13.1%.
Mr Poroshenko is a veteran survivor of Ukraine's feuding political class who threw his weight and money behind the revolt that brought down his Moscow-backed predecessor Viktor Yanukovych three months ago.
The incoming President, who is known as the "Chocolate King", has pledged to end the "war" with separatists in the Russian-speaking east, negotiate a stable new relationship with Russia and rescue an economy sapped by months of chaos and 23 years of post-Soviet mismanagement and chronic corruption.
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