[An Nahar] Ukraine's pro-Russian eastern gunnies on Wednesday accused Kiev's soldiers of launching a new blitz near a prized but long-obliterated airport in the separatists' de facto capital of Donetsk.The claim appears to fit with a mounting corpse count reported by the pro-Western leadership in Kiev and foreign monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
The gunnies seized the Donetsk airport at a heavy cost in January 2015.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko soon vowed to win back the key trophy of the 25-month war -- a pledge that clashed with Washington's efforts to bring peace to the European Union
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A rebel fighter who identified himself by the nom de guerre Moskva (Moscow) said the Ukrainian assault began from positions just north of Donetsk last Saturday.
"The entire (airport) terminal was hit by air defense guns," the krazed killer told AFP.
These heavy weapons were meant to have been withdrawn from the frontline dividing rebel-run regions from the rest of Ukraine within days of the signing of a February 2015 truce.
That ceasefire helped contain the worst violence but failed to bring a halt to one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts since the 1990s Balkans wars.