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| Rebel leader calls for cease-fire in besieged Donetsk | |
| 2014-08-10 | |
| [USATODAY] A top separatist leader on Saturday admitted that Ukrainian forces had surrounded Donetsk, the stronghold of Russian-backed rebels, and called for a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds. "We are ready for a ceasefire in order to avert the humanitarian catastrophe growing," Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic, said in a statement posted on a rebel website, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named and AFP news agency. Igor Girkin, a top commander of the pro-Russia bully boys, also acknowledged Saturday that Donetsk was surrounded and conceded that Ukrainian troops had gotten the upper hand in eastern Ukraine after four months of fighting. The appeal by Zakharchenko comes as Russia is pressing to send a humanitarian convoy into Ukraine to parts of the besieged eastern regions, an offer that the Ukrainian government has labeled a ploy to cover a military invasion. Although Western countries says Moscow has assembled some 20,000 troops just across the border, Russia has denied it . Zakharchenko -- who took over as prime minister of of the DPR last week -- warned that rebels were determined the defend Donestk if Ukrainian forces tried to capture the city of one million people. "The fight will be for every street, for every house, for every meter of our land," Zakharchenko said, and would turned the city into a new "Stalingrad," a reference to the Soviet Union's refusal to surrender the city of Stalingrad to the Nazis during World War II. Putingrad. It will go down in military history.
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