Six Ukrainian servicemen killed in fresh violence

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 05 April 2015 | 22.40

At least six Ukrainian servicemen were killed in separatist attacks in Ukraine's eastern regions.

Four Ukrainian soldiers died when their vehicle was hit by a shell fired by pro-Russian separatists as it drove across abridge in the government-held town of Schastye, 170km northeast of Donetsk.

In a separate incident a short time later, a landmine exploded under a military vehicle at Shyrokyne, east of the Sea of Azov city of Mariupol, killing two soldiers and injuring a third, a military spokesman said on.

The new casualties, which followed the deaths of three Ukrainian servicemen in a landmine explosion yesterda, put further strain on a tenuous ceasefire struck two months ago.

The conflict erupted a year ago this weekend when rebels opposed to a new pro-Western leadership in Kiev and the ousting of a Moscow-backed president occupied state buildings in two cities of Ukraine's Russian-speaking east, Donetsk and Luhansk.

More than 6,000 civilians, rebels and Ukrainian servicemen have been killed since then in a crisis in which Kiev has accused Russia of arming and supporting the rebels.

The West - backing Ukraine - has brought economic and financial sanctions against Russia.

The crisis has now reached stalemate with a ceasefire, brokered by Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in mid-February still technically in force though deaths are reported almost daily among Ukrainian soldiers, civilians and rebels.

But large swathes of the industrialised east, including Donetsk and Luhansk, are under the control of the rebels and Kiev fears they could be preparing to try to take Mariupol, a city of half a million people.

Under an agreement reached in Minsk, Belarus, the warring sides have pulled back heavy military equipment to put their big guns out of range of each other and are working on extending the withdrawal to include tanks and smaller-calibre weapons.

But the status of the separatist-minded regions, whose leaders have proclaimed 'people's republics', remains disputed, and the rebels appear unlikely to allow Ukrainian elections to be held there later this year.

Both sides accuse each other of violating the ceasefire agreed in Minsk despite the pull-back of heavy weapons.


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